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Alfonso X of Ca stile (1252–1284) introduced episodes from Ovid’s Metamor phoses extensively throughout his ambitious historiographical projec t, the General Estoria (General history). Since he had to adapt p agan myths to fit a Biblical frame, Alfonso followed the pattern of cont emporary Christian interpreters, who used three approaches or stages: hi storical/euhemeristic, allegorical/glossarist, and moralistic. However, elements appear in each of them that were unfamiliar to the Latin cultur e of his time and can only be explained through Alfonso’s translat ion endeavors from Arabic into Castilian. Therefore, the descriptions of illustrious men and women in Ovid’s story of Io do not adhere to other European models: they study the liberal arts, write books on the s ciences, practice astrology and magic, and excel in good customs and cou rtly pursuits such as music and falconry. These components are particula rly distinct in the figure of Mercury, who is an accomplished magician, musician, and expert in the trivium and quadrivium—s kills that he uses along with his Arab-like alfange to kill Argus , and thus to allegorically educate the “bestialized” Io. Ba sed on several allusions in the text, I suggest that Alfonso reframes Me rcury as a personification of the ancient sage Hermes Trismegistus, epit ome of Mediterranean cultural and religious syncretism. In essence, Merc ury becomes a Hermes hispanus: a summary of the Islamic Christian , Jewish, classical, and Near Eastern intellectual traditions that conve rged in the Iberian Peninsula.

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