"Yo he hecho lo que he podido, Fortuna lo que ha querido" is the title of an unknown comedy by Lope de Vega that has been discovered in the collections of the National Library of Spain,

and that, given the nature of the author, could be a work in code with similarities to the political situation of the moment.

As reported by the BNE last Friday, it is the only copy of the princeps (first of the series), without printing data, from the Sevillian workshop of Francisco de Lyra (1632-1634) and of which not even its title appears in the lists of works from Lope which are waiting to be located. 

It is a work in which Miguel Bermúdez, an occasional actor and writer, appeared as the author, but there is strong evidence of Lope's authorship, as shown in the study of Abraham Madroñal, professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Geneva. Madroñal is responsible for the discovery and his study has just been published in the Olmedo Clásico collection at the University of Valladolid.

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