Author: Mateo Alemán
- Fiction
- Ediciones Catedra S.A. 
- ISBN: 9788437606859
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Eduardo de Lamadrid

A masterpiece of the picaresque genre, this novel is remarkable not only for its vivid narration of adventures and its philosophical observations, but also for its evocation of the life, morals and manners of the period of the Counter Reformation in Spain and Italy.