La enmienda conjetural en la novela corta del Barroco (con una coda lazarillesca)

Through examples taken from five Baroque short novel authors (Camerino, Castillo Solórzano, Piña, Sanz del Castillo and Vital Pizarro y Cuña) I analyse the conditions which, before errors that cannot be emended ope codicum, allow to achieve an emendatio ope ingenii. Obviously, such procedure requires both the identification of the error’s probable genesis and the respect for the language of the time and the genre stylistic habits. Moreover, another requisite must be satisfied: conjectures necessarily have to take into account the usus scribendi of the author himself –if definible– or, following Poliziano’s method, the one of his auctoritates. In the last chapter, dedicated to Lazarillo, I draw attention to the conjecture “deste artife” (Ruffinatto) and offer an alternative explanation for the probable error “deste arte”.