Again, the Trimalconian banquets of the rich, with their voluptuous foods and the tragalism of the orgies too often following are parallels to the crapulous tropes of the Soledades.

For Sigismondo’s nearest rival as an elephantophile monarch was to be King Manuel the Fortunate of Portugal (1495-1521).

The World, and this, which by another name men have thought good to call Heaven (under the pourprise and bending cope wherof, all things are emmanteled and covered) beleeve wee ought in all reason to be a God, eternall, unmeasurable, without beginning, and likewise endlesse.

New information challenged old hypotheses.