Juan Ramón Jiménez's meditative reflections on the peregrinations of an Andalusian countryman and his loyal little donkey, Platero, have long captured the Spanish imagination. The 138 prose poems that make up Platero Y Yo (Platero and I) were published in 1914. In June 1960 Mario Castenuo-Tedesco began to work on guitar accompaniments to 28 of the poems from Jiménez's Platero Y Yo. They are best described as musical commentaries, reinforcing and complementing Jiménez's prose, and matching the changing moods.