Crossword-Solution: PICARA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Strange to say, besides some adaptations from Spanish authors ("La Picara," 1665; "Donna Rosina," 1700?), a translation of Voiture's Letters, 1657, the same John Davies of Kidwelly, who had written this eloquent appeal against heroical romances, translated "Clelia," 1656, and part of "Cleopatra" in conjunction with Loveday.

And so it came about that in the enforced loneliness of her childhood she ransacked a library in which the "Picara Justina" of Fray Andrs Perez stood side-by-side with the Kalevala, a library in which works stupid as the Koran and dead as Coptic touched covers with the "Idyls of the King" and the fabliaux of mediæval France.

The chief representations of him in literature are in the novel of "Lazarillo de Tormes" (1554), by Hurtado de Mendoza; "Guzman de Alfarache" (1599), by Mateo Aleman; and "La Picara Justina" (1605), by the Dominican monk, Andreas Perez.

Next to follow in that line was the _Picara Justina_, published in 1605, the work of a Dominican whose real name was Andrés Perez.

Perhaps anterior to both _Guzman de Alfarache_ and _Picara Justina_, though not published till 1613, were Cervantes' two sketches of _picaresque_ life, _Rinconete y Cortadillo_ and _Los Perros de Mahudes_, the scene of which is laid in the Triana, the suburb of Seville, then, as now, the favourite home and head-quarters of the _picaresque_ gentry.