El ethos elegíaco de Tomás Rodaja en la "Novela del licenciado Vidriera"

This article begins by examining the military and colorful parrot-like outfit that Tomás Rodaja wears before he departs for Italy and connects it with the classical literary practice among Roman elegiac poets that uses birds as symbols of allusion to past poets. In this sense, Cervantes adopts the imitative ability of the parrot in order to camouflage some scenes of the novela before the major transformation of Rodaja into glass. In so doing, Cervantes creates various situations that contain elements of Latin love elegy. If Rodaja's experiences are interpreted with this poetic genre in mind, he resembles Ovid during his early career as a poet of love elegies. In sum, in the beginning of the novela, Rodaja embodies the figure of Ovid during his initial steps into the poetic tradition of the Latin love elegy.