The Architect's Wife 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　 From the Spanish of Antonio Trueba Antonio Trueba,who is still alive, was born on Christmas Eve, 1821,at Sopuerta,in Spain.As in the case of Burns,his father was a peasant,and Antonio, as a child, played in the gutters with the other village urchins, or worked with his father in the fields.But at fifteen ,one of his relations, kept a shop at Madrid, made him his assistant.By day he waited on the customers; by night he studied in his room. Genius like that of Burns and of Tryeba cannot be kept down.Like Burns, the boy began to put forth songs, strong, sweet, and simple,which stirred the people's hearts like music, and soon were hummed in every village street.His fame spread ;it reached the Court ; and Queen Isabella bestowed upon him the lofty title of Queen's poet.He wrote also ,and still writes, prose stories of all kinds, but mostly such as,like the following, belong to the romance of history,and are rather truth than fiction. アントニオ・トルエバ（Antonio Trueba） １８２１年スペインのソプエルタ生まれ、1889年没。 父親は貧しい農民で、少年時代は貧民街で村の子供と遊んだり、父親と畑で働いていた。１５才の時にマドリードにある親戚の店へ働きに出て、日中は店番をし、夜は独学で勉強した。バーンズと同じくトルエバ少年は、力強く、美しく、簡潔な詩を書き始め、やがて街中で口ずさまれるようになる。その名声は宮廷にまで届き、イザベラ女王はトルエバに宮廷詩人の称号を授けた。トルエバはさまざまな物語を書き続けているが、フィクションより実話を好み、歴史ロマンを多く手がけている。 (バーンズ（Robert Burns）１８世紀のスコットランドの国民詩人) (訳　清水 健） 1 2 3 4 　　　　　(画像をクリックすると大きな画像が出ます)