El triunfo del engaño: el cuento ‘Canicula’ del ‘Sendebar’ y sus paralelos

The story conventionally called Canicula, widely distributed (from the 'Hundred' and 'Thousand and One Nights' to the 'Disciplina clericalis', from the 'Libro de los exemoplos por a.b.c.' to the 'Esopete ystoriado'), weaves several motifs: the chaste bride persuaded by deception, the metamorphosis of the woman in a dog, betrayal with the spouse himself. The whole of the narrative is ensured by the presence of the old mizzen, a figure destined
to great fortune, whose cunning triggers a sequence of deceptions that reaches its climax in the final one made by the wife against her husband. The article aims to analyze the narrative strategies used in the version of the text offered by the 'Sendebar' and to evaluate
their exemplary nature with respect to the intertextual context (the frame) in which it is inserted, taking into account the constants and variations with respect to some of his other rewrites.