Let us say that he wrote proprio , and not propio . I do not see a potential for great loss or distortion here, if one avoids a kind of fetichismo de la palabra , especially since, thanks to Flores, we now know that we do not know how Cervantes spelled most of these words. Perhaps my proposal has serious inadequacies of which I am unaware. I am neither a linguist nor a philologist, nor do I know the first editions as Flores does. We are talking about appropriate criteria for editing any Golden Age text.
Comment is invited.