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Ramón Laval gives a brief literary history of de Urdemalas and publishes a small series of tales collected in Chile in the late nineteenth century.
Pedro de Urdemalas lives by his wit, has no shame, and at different times makes a pact with the devil, God, the Virgin Mary, and St. Peter.
Cervantes wrote a play about him in 1615, Comedia Famosa de Pedro de Urdemalas, so we know Pedro de Urdemalas was already a folkloric character in the seventeenth century.
But it is clear that Pedro de Urdemalas is a Hispano precursor to Don Cacahuate, el pelado, Tin Tan, Cantinflas, and an antecedent of Chicano joking behavior.
Because these tales were not—as far as we know—collected in the Renaissance and because, like ballads and songs, they must have been subject to endless variation and mutual interference, we cannot now know the Pedro de Urdemalas who endeared himself to the folk” (218).