Magia terapéutica en el Segundo tomo del ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha de Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda: el romance del conde Peranzules y una réplica a Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes included several ballads in his Don Quixote of 1605. Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda imitated this practice in his sequel to Cervantes's novel. One of the ballads of Avellaneda's Segundo tomo del ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha is the “ballad of Count Peranzules,” which was mentioned by Sancho Panza during the episode of the melons. Avellaneda, a defender of both religious orthodoxy and immobility within social structures, used this ballad to criticize the presence of magical incantation in some passages of Cervantes's first Don Quixote. The ballad of Count Peranzules has not yet been identified but it might be related to the ballad of Count Pero Vélez.