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References to the author's own work should be couched in the third person. But more importantly, through the actions of the Virgin Queen, the Cervantine text reveals the anxieties of early modern men, when faced with subjection to a woman of political and spiritual authority. It is Cide Hamete who laments about the complaints of his readers, and half-heartedly accepts their criticism. The reasons adduced by Cide Hamete in his defense are not, however, convincing. Our thesis involves a rethinking of the function of allegory in Persiles in the context of a discussion of Renaissance literary and artistic experiments, from anamorphosis to mannerism.