The first thing he noticed was the handwriting in the margins. The Alcalá edition was clean, scrubbed. This one… this one was alive . Next to the famous opening—“ Pues sepa Vuestra Merced, ante todas cosas, que a mí llaman Lázaro de Tormes… ”—someone had scribbled in a shaky, furious 16th-century letra procesal :

Anonymous. (1554). *La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades* (M. Alpert, Trans.). Penguin Classics. (Original work published 1554)