Persiles and Sigismunda. "The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda"

Cervantes’s posthumous novel. The young couple are in love, but roam the world pretending they are brother and sister; they travel from fantastic islands to known countries, their goal being to arrive in Rome. During this life of trials and tribulations they call themselves Periandro and Auristela, until recovering the happy silence – sileo, sigilum – embodied by their true names: Persiles and Sigismunda. The love between the main characters achieves the impossible. They overcome a thousand adversities and traverse land and sea in order to arrive in Rome.