The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities (Spanish: La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades) is a Spanish novella, published anonymously because of its heretical content. It was published simultaneously in two cities, in 1554 in Alcalá de Henares, Spain (seven years after Cervantes was born there), and, in 1555 in Antwerp, Flanders, then under Spanish rule, and where the similarly picaresque book Till Eulenspiegel had been published in 1529 and become popular. The book was published during the Spanish Inquisition, when the first Spanish trials against Lutherans were about to take place.
Lazarillo de Tormes was banned by the Spanish Crown and included in the Index of Forbidden Books of the Spanish Inquisition; this was at least in part due to the book's anti-clerical flavour. In 1573, the Crown allowed circulation of a version which omitted Chapters 4 and 5 and assorted paragraphs from other parts of the book. (An unabridged version did not appear in Spain until the nineteenth century.) It was the Antwerp version that circulated throughout Europe, translated into French (1560), English (1576), Dutch (1579) after Flanders came under Dutch rule (1578), German (1617), and Italian (1622).
Lazarillo de Tormes was banned by the Spanish Crown and included in the Index of Forbidden Books of the Spanish Inquisition; this was at least in part due to the book's anti-clerical flavour. In 1573, the Crown allowed circulation of a version which omitted Chapters 4 and 5 and assorted paragraphs from other parts of the book. (An unabridged version did not appear in Spain until the nineteenth century.) It was the Antwerp version that circulated throughout Europe, translated into French (1560), English (1576), Dutch (1579) after Flanders came under Dutch rule (1578), German (1617), and Italian (1622).
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