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Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® Cert
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Carl Pritchard
Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® Cert Guide

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 Contents at a Glance

Introduction
PART I Strategic Risk and Risk Planning
CHAPTER 1 The Risk Structure
CHAPTER 2 Risk Environment and Culture
CHAPTER 3 Tolerance, Thresholds, and Triggers
CHAPTER 4 Strategic Risk
CHAPTER 5 The Risk Management Plan (RMP)
CHAPTER 6 Connecting Others in Risk
PART II Risk Identification
CHAPTER 7 Practical, Team-Based Risk Identification
CHAPTER 8 Constraints and Assumptions
CHAPTER 9 Applying Triggers and Thresholds
CHAPTER 10 The Risk Register
PART III Risk Analytics
CHAPTER 11 Risk Qualification
CHAPTER 12 Risk Quantification
CHAPTER 13 Risk Complexity, Assessment, and Analysis
PART IV Risk Management and Resolution
CHAPTER 14 Response Planning
CHAPTER 15 Response Implementation
PART V Tracking and Closing Out Risks
CHAPTER 16 Data Collection
CHAPTER 17 The Leftovers and the Latecomers
CHAPTER 18 Sharing Risk Information
PART VI Final Preparation
CHAPTER 19 Final Preparation
APPENDIX A Answers to the “Do I Know This Already?” Quizzes and Review Questions
APPENDIX B Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® Cert Guide Exam Updates
 Glossary of Key Terms
Index
ONLINE ELEMENTS
APPENDIX C Study Planner
 Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Strategic Risk and Risk Planning
Chapter 1 The Risk Structure
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
Foundation Topics
Risk Documentation Capture
Industry Benchmarks
Project Plans
Lessons Learned
Customer Agreements
Project Assumptions
The Project Charter
Risk Roles and Responsibilities
Risk Manager
Risk Owner
Risk Team
Project Roles
Risk Responsibilities
The Risk Archive
Risk Repository
Risk Register
Exam Preparation Tasks
Review All the Key Topics
Key Terms You Should Know
Review Questions
Chapter 2 Risk Environment and Culture
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
Foundation Topics
 Risk Attitude, Appetite, and Maturity
Tolerance
Threshold
Appetite
Attitude
Risk Maturity
Risk Assumptions
Constraint-Driven Risks
Stakeholders and Risk Culture
Salience Model
Stakeholder Tolerances
Risk Owners
Stakeholder Risk Planning
Program Stakeholders
Portfolio Stakeholders
Data Processing
Organizational Infrastructure
Communication
Facilities, Equipment, and Hardware
Capacity
Exam Preparation Tasks
Review All the Key Topics
Key Terms You Should Know
Review Questions
Chapter 3 Tolerance, Thresholds, and Triggers
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
Foundation Topics
Risk Absorption
Organizational and Project Risk Tolerance
Organizational Risk Tolerance
 Project Risk Tolerance
Thresholds
Triggers
Recognizing and Resolving Cultural Discord
Exam Preparation Tasks
Review All the Key Topics
Key Terms You Should Know
Review Questions
Chapter 4 Strategic Risk
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
Foundation Topics
Risk Process Alignment
Risk Management Planning
Risk Identification
Risk Analysis
Qualitative Analysis
Quantitative Analysis
Risk Response Development
Risk Response Implementation and Control
Risk Process Tools
Risk Sources and Their Roles
Risk Alliances
Exam Preparation Tasks
Review All the Key Topics
Key Terms You Should Know
Review Questions
Chapter 5 The Risk Management Plan (RMP)
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
Foundation Topics
The Three R’s: RAM, RACI, and RBS
 Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
RACI (Responsible Accountable Consult Inform) Chart
The Risk Breakdown Structure
Risk Responsibility and Accountability
Risk Responsibility in the Risk Management Plan
Risk Accountability in the Risk Management Plan
Risk Communication Documentation
The Author
The Timing
The Recipients
Communications Modes
Risk Education and Training
Exam Preparation Tasks
Review All the Key Topics
Key Terms You Should Know
Review Questions
Chapter 6 Connecting Others in Risk
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
Foundation Topics
Stakeholders and Their Roles
Strategic Risk and the Stakeholders
Team Engagement in Appetites, Attitudes, and Priorities
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing
Adjourning
Team-Driven Data-Gathering Techniques
Brainstorming
Nominal Group Technique
 Focus Groups
Interviews
The Delphi Technique
Meetings
Rules of Engagement
Tolerance Rules
Trigger Rules
Escalation Rules
Reporting Rules
Information–Sharing Rules
Risk Education Beyond the Strategic
Exam Preparation Tasks
Review All the Key Topics
Key Terms You Should Know
Review Questions
Part II: Risk Identification
Chapter 7 Practical, Team-Based Risk Identification
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
Foundation Topics
Identification Approaches
Mind Mapping
Affinity Diagram
Root Cause Analysis
Checklist Analysis
Assumptions Analysis
SWOT Analysis
Expert Judgment
The Risk Questions
Preliminary Data Analysis
The Risk Register
 Exam Preparation Tasks
Review All the Key Topics
Key Terms You Should Know
Review Questions
Chapter 8 Constraints and Assumptions
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
Foundation Topics
Constraints as Risk Drivers
Known-Knowns
Unknown-Knowns
Unknown-Unknowns
Known-Unknowns
Pure Versus Business or Speculative Risk
Changes in Constraints
Assumptions as Identified Risks
The Open Assumptions and Constraints Discussion
Assumptions, Constraints, Tolerances, and Thresholds
Exam Preparation Tasks
Review All the Key Topics
Key Terms You Should Know
Review Questions
Chapter 9 Applying Triggers and Thresholds
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
Foundation Topics
Compliance and the Implications of Tolerance
Tolerance- and Threshold-Driven Triggers
Visible Triggers
Physical Triggers
Stakeholder-Driven Triggers
Exam Preparation Tasks
 Review All the Key Topics
Key Terms You Should Know
Review Questions
Chapter 10 The Risk Register
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
Foundation Topics
Register Functionality
Register Categories
Risk ID
Risk Event
Probability
Impact
Urgency
Propinquity
Proximity
Dormancy
Manageability and Controllability
Connectivity
Detectability (FMEA)
Strategic Impact
Overall Risk
Priority
Risk Owner
Area(s) Impacted
Escalation
Response Strategy Type
Response Strategy Narrative Description
Implementation Schedule
Implementation Review
Retirement Criteria
 Follow-up
Outcome
Archival Location
Risk Classification
Exam Preparation Tasks
Review All the Key Topics
Key Terms You Should Know
Review Questions
Part III: Risk Analytics
Chapter 11 Risk Qualification
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
Foundation Topics
Risk Sorting
Taxonomic Review
Risk Management Plan Application
Risk Ranking
Group Risk Ranking
Individual Risk Ranking
Fist to Five
Dot Voting
Roman Voting
Consensus
Nominal Group Technique
Stakeholder-Based Ranking Support
Exam Preparation Tasks
Review All the Key Topics
Key Terms You Should Know
Review Questions
Chapter 12 Risk Quantification
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
 Foundation Topics
Performance Data and Its Implications
Waterfall Performance Data
Budget at Completion
Planned Value
Earned Value
Actual Costs
Schedule Variance and Schedule Performance Index
Cost Variance and Cost Performance Index
Estimate at Completion
To-Complete Performance Index
Agile Performance Data
Sprint Completion
User Stories Completion
Story Point Completion
General Versus Detailed Quantitative Analysis
General Analysis
Detailed Analysis
Sensitivity Analysis Tools
Monte Carlo Sensitivity Analysis
Tornado Diagram
Network Diagram Sensitivity Analysis (Critical Path)
Ishikawa Diagram Analysis (Root Cause)
Decision Tree Analysis
Relative Risk Weight and Priority
Exam Preparation Tasks
Review All the Key Topics
Key Terms You Should Know
Review Questions
Chapter 13 Risk Complexity, Assessment, and Analysis
 “Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
Foundation Topics
Risk Complexity
Root Cause Analysis (Ishikawa)
SWOT Analysis
Tree Diagrams
Fault Trees
Decision Trees
Risk Interconnectedness
Risk at the Organizational Level
Threat Versus Opportunity
Exam Preparation Tasks
Review All the Key Topics
Key Terms You Should Know
Review Questions
Part IV: Risk Management and Resolution
Chapter 14 Response Planning
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
Foundation Topics
Opportunity Versus Threat Strategies
Opportunity Strategies
Passive Acceptance
Active Acceptance
Exploitation
Enhancement
Sharing
Escalation
Threat Strategies
Avoidance
Mitigation
 Transfer
Escalation
Action Plans and Risk Owners
Action Plans
Agile Action Plans
Predictive Action Plans
Risk Owners
Resolution Metrics and Communication
Resolution Metrics and Evaluation
Workarounds
Response Communication
Organizational Impacts
Tolerances
Policy
Compliance
Objectives
Exam Preparation Tasks
Review All the Key Topics
Key Terms You Should Know
Review Questions
Chapter 15 Response Implementation
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
Foundation Topics
Response Plans Versus Contingencies
Stakeholder Response Reactions
Nature of the Response
Personal/Professional Implementation Involvement
Personal/Professional Tolerances
Residual Risk and Its Implications
Secondary Risk and Its Implications
 Exam Preparation Tasks
Review All the Key Topics
Key Terms You Should Know
Review Questions
Part V: Tracking and Closing Out Risks
Chapter 16 Data Collection
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
Foundation Topics
Gathering Information
Data Sources
Degrees of Accuracy
Ranking Approach Efficacy
High-Probability Risk Realization
High-Impact Risk Realization
Resilience
Anti-fragility
Overall Risk and Project Influence
Contrasting Project and Organizational Risk
Project Risks in an Organizational Context
Organizational Risk Taking in a Project Context
Organizational Aspects as Risk Sources/Drivers
Rewards in Risk–Reward
Rewards to Offset Risks
Exam Preparation Tasks
Review All the Key Topics
Key Terms You Should Know
Review Questions
Chapter 17 The Leftovers and the Latecomers
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
Foundation Topics
 Residuals and Deductibles
Deployed and Undeployed Responses
Intended and Unintended Outcomes
Residual Project and Organizational Risk
Residual Financial Risk
Residual Quality Risk
Residual Reputational Risk
Response-Generated Risks
Risk Environment and Response-Generated Risk
Specific Responses That Generate Risk
Firm-Fixed Price Contracts
Fixed-Price Economic Adjustment (FPEA) Contracts
Fixed-Price Incentive Fee (FPI or FPIF) Contracts
Cost-Plus Incentive Fee (CPIF) Contracts
Cost-Plus Award Fee (CPAF) Contracts
Cost-Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) Contracts
Time and Materials (T&M) Contracts
Cost-Plus Percentage of Cost (CPPC) Contracts
Contract Type Summary
Late Risk Reporting
Risk Register Updates
Workaround Reporting
Exam Preparation Tasks
Review All the Key Topics
Key Terms You Should Know
Review Questions
Chapter 18 Sharing Risk Information
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
Foundation Topics
Risk Reporting
 Qualitative Data Gathering and Reporting: Predictive
Qualitative Data Gathering and Reporting: Adaptive
Quantitative Data Gathering and Reporting: Predictive
Quantitative Data Gathering and Reporting: Adaptive
Related Document Updates
Management Plan Updates
Lessons Learned Updates
Change Log Updates
Project-wide Risk Updates
How Has the Project Gone?
What Risks Remain?
What’s the Likelihood of Success?
Organization-wide Risk Updates
Organizational Impact Risks
Personnel/Stakeholders Risk Updates
Deliverables Organizational Risks (Quality)
System Life Cycle Risk Updates
Unanticipated Overuse
Environmental/Technical/Organizational Change
Updated Risks to the Project Management Culture
Cultural “Get Away with It” Risk Updates
Misapplication Risk Updates
Tolerance Updates
Exam Preparation Tasks
Review All the Key Topics
Key Terms You Should Know
Review Questions
Part VI: Final Preparation
Chapter 19 Final Preparation
Suggested Plan for Final Review and Study
 Summary
Appendix A Answers to the “Do I Know This Already?” Quizzes and Review Questions
Appendix B PMI-RMP (Risk Management Professional) Cert Guide Exam Updates
Glossary of Key Terms
Index
ONLINE ELEMENTS
Appendix C Study Planner
About the Author

Carl Pritchard, PMI-RMP®, PMP® is a thought leader in the risk management community,
where he has been involved for 30 years. He has written eight books and led training around the
globe for the Project Management Institute, as well as for private clients.

In 2019, PMI® global awarded him the Eric Jenett Project Management Excellence Award,
citing him as the “Best of the Best” in project management. Considered the “fun guy” of project
risk management, Carl is a sought-after speaker and has presented keynote addresses for major
conferences and corporate all-hands meetings.

Carl is honored by his long-term relationships with PMI® chapters in upstate New York,
Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and the greater Washington, DC area. He resides in the mountains of
western Maryland with his wife, Nancy. Additional information about Carl’s current activities
can be found at carlpritchard.com, and you can follow Carl on Twitter @rmpprep.
Dedication

I would like to dedicate this book to my lovely wife, Nancy, and my two amazing sons, Adam and
James, who are always there and always a source of encouragement, supporting me through the
development of this book.

—Carl
Acknowledgments

It takes a lot of amazing people to publish a book. Special thanks go to Chris Cleveland, Laura
Norman, and all the others at Pearson (and beyond) who helped make this book a reality. We
appreciate everything you do! I thank my technical editor and fellow risk expert, Susan Parente,
for her professionalism and encouragement throughout the process. Most of all, I thank my
lovely wife, Nancy, without whom I couldn’t have made it through.
About the Technical Reviewer

Professor Susan Parente is a principal consultant at S3 Technologies, LLC, the project

management certificate program coordinator, and an instructor at the University of Virginia. She
is also a project engineer, speaker, author, and mentor who leads large complex IT software
implementation projects and the establishment of Enterprise PMOs. She has 25+ years of
experience leading software and business development projects in the private and public sectors,
supporting small to large organizations in many sectors. She trains and mentors project managers
in the areas of traditional and Agile project management and risk management. Mrs. Parente has
co-authored books in her areas of expertise, risk management and agile project management:
Global Hot Spots: How Project and Enterprise Risk Management Practices Drive Business
Results Around the World and recently, Hybrid Project Management: Using Agile with
Traditional PM Methodologies to Succeed on Modern Projects.”
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Introduction

Welcome to the Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® Cert Guide. The PMI-RMP® is the
premier certification for project managers with a risk orientation or risk managers working
extensively on projects. It is industry neutral, but Agile areas of the exam do lend themselves to
those in the information technology community. The exam serves as a means to show a clear
grasp of risk management practice in a project management context. As organizations seek to
mature in project management, risk management becomes a logical next step in ensuring that
projects are completed without putting individuals and organizations in danger. Risk
management’s positive orientation opportunity is also a focus for true professionals seeking to
optimize individual and organizational performance and outcomes. I wrote this book to be
something you can study from for the exam and keep on your bookshelf for later use as a risk
resource.

There are a host of risk practices out there. Some focus on insurance risk. Others take aim at
financial risk. Still others hone in on risks to the environment. Project risk and project
management risk is an arena unto itself. Although it ties to these other kinds of risks, the focus is
on achieving project outcomes successfully.

To prepare for the exam, it’s important to recognize that there will often be multiple true answers
on the examination, but PMI® will be expecting you to select the best answer, rather than just the
true answer. I’ve tried to highlight the best answers throughout this book. Some of the questions
on your real exam will be only a sentence or two. Others will be lengthy narratives that are
challenging to follow. Your best strategy to deal with the more bloated questions is to read the
last sentence or two, and then select the best answer. Upon doing so, return to the top of the
question and read the narrative. In many instances, you’ll find the narrative was there for
distraction, rather than information.

In the answers, you’ll occasionally encounter terms you have never seen before. Although they
may be legitimate, remember that PMI®’s questions authors sometimes make up answers to fill
in the space for distraction. They are sometimes not terms of art in risk management. They’re
simply fiction.

And when you’re taking the exam, if you hit a question that is completely, utterly, unintelligible
or unfamiliar, consider a probabilistic approach to the question. It is statistically more likely that
the longest answer is the right answer in such situations. This should not be your default setting
for the exam, but when you are truly desperate, it’s a way to leverage probabilities in your favor.

This book alone will not make you a great risk manager. It will teach you the processes and
lexicon of risk essential to pass the PMI-RMP® exam, when coupled with your professional
experience and other available data sources. Good luck as you prepare to take the PMI-RMP®
exam. As you read through this book, you will be taking advantage of the experiences of others,
enhancing the opportunities associated with passing the exam.

Goals and Methods

The number one goal of this book is to help you pass the PMI-RMP® Certification Exam. To that
effect, I have filled this book and practice exams with more than 600 questions/answers and
explanations in total, including four practice exams. All exams are located in Pearson Test Prep
practice test software in a custom test environment. These tests are geared to check your
knowledge and ready you for the real exam.

To aid you in mastering and understanding the PMI-RMP® objectives, this book uses the
following methods:

Opening topics list: This defines the topics to be covered in the chapter.
Foundation topics: The heart of the chapter. This includes in-depth descriptions, tables, and
figures that are geared to build your knowledge so that you can pass the exam. Each chapter
covers at least one full task from one of the five domains from the PMI-RMP® exam outline.
Key topics: The Key Topic icons indicate important paragraphs, figures, tables, and lists of
information that you should know for the exam. They are interspersed throughout the chapter
and are listed in table format at the end of the chapter.
Key terms: Key terms without definitions are listed at the end of each chapter. See whether
 you can define them, and then check your work against the complete key term definitions in
the glossary.
Review questions: These quizzes, and answers with explanations, are meant to gauge your
knowledge of the subjects. If an answer to a question doesn’t come readily to you, be sure to
review that portion of the chapter. The review questions are also available online.
Practice exams: The practice exams are included in the Pearson Test Prep practice test
software. These test your knowledge and skills in a realistic testing environment. Take these
after you have read through the entire book. Master one, and then move on to the next. Take
any available bonus exams last.

Who Should Read This Book?

This book is for anyone who wants to advance a career in project management, and more
specifically, project risk management. Readers of this book can range from persons who have
been project managers for years who are now ready to take the next step in building up the risk
aspect of their career, to those who are just entering project management but want to be a
specialist in risk before becoming a generalist as a project manager.

This book is also designed for people who see risk management as the future. As more and more
organizations identify their risk practices as inadequate, individuals who can prove themselves to
be true specialists in the field of risk command a premium. Because the book is focused on
Project Management Institute practices, it ties in with the other PMI® certifications, particularly
the Project Management Professional® certification.

The prerequisites for the exam may sound daunting. They’re not as challenging as they appear on
the surface. Candidates with a secondary diploma (high school diploma or associate degree) need
to be able to illustrate 36 months of risk management–oriented experience over the past five
years. Those with a four-year degree or more need to be able to defend 24 months’ experience.
Note that most project management experience is risk management experience. In fact, many
types of professional experience outside project management would qualify. The key is that the
experience incorporates risk awareness, process, and rigor. It’s possible to be a project manager
without being a risk manager, and conversely, it’s possible to be a risk manager without being a
project manager. PMI® would prefer the latter over the former.

This book affords you insight into the terminology and processes of risk management. The best
candidates for the exam are those who have experience in applying the terminology and
processes with rigor. The focus of this book is to highlight those aspects of risk management that
are predominant on the exam, and how those aspects should be integrated into project
management in the day-to-day.

PMI-RMP® Exam Topics

If you haven’t downloaded the PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® Examination
Content Outline and Specifications, do it now from the PMI website:
https://www.pmi.org/certifications/risk-management-rmp. Review it and make sure you are
familiar with every item that is listed. Use the information found in this document to aid in your
studies while you use this book.

The following two tables are excerpts from the Examination Content Outline and Specifications
document. Table I-1 lists the PMI-RMP® domains and each domain’s percentage of the exam.

Table I-1 PMI-RMP® Exam Domains

Domain % of Exam

Risk Strategy and Planning 22%

Risk Identification 23%

Risk Analysis 23%

Risk Response 13%

 Monitor and Close Risks 19%

The PMI-RMP® domains are then further broken down into individual tasks with some enablers,
which are illustrative examples of the work associated with the task.

Table I-2 lists the PMI-RMP® domains and tasks and their related chapters in this book. It does
not list the enablers for each task. Please refer to the PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-
RMP)® Examination Content Outline and Specifications for full details.

Table I-2 PMI-RMP® Exam Domains, Tasks, and Chapter Mapping

Domain I: Risk Strategy and Planning

Task Chapter(s)

1 Perform a preliminary document analysis 1

2 Assess project environment for threats and opportunities 2

3 Confirm risk threshold based on risk appetites 3

4 Establish risk management strategy 4

5 Document the risk management plan 5

6 Plan and lead risk management activities with stakeholders 6

Domain II: Risk Identification

Task Chapter(s)
1 Conduct risk identification exercises 7

2 Examine assumption and constraint analyses 8

3 Document risk triggers and thresholds based on context/environment 9

4 Develop risk register 10

Domain III: Risk Analysis

Task Chapter(s)

1 Perform qualitative analysis 11

2 Perform quantitative analysis 12

3 Identify threats and opportunities 13

Domain IV: Risk Response

Task Chapter(s)

1 Plan risk response 14

2 Implement risk response 15

Domain V: Monitor and Close Risks

Task Chapter(s)

1 Gather and analyze performance data 16

 2 Monitor residual and secondary risks 17

3 Provide information required to update relevant project documents 18

4 Monitor project risk levels 18

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Part I

Strategic Risk and Risk Planning

Chapter 1

The Risk Structure

This chapter covers the following topics:

Risk Documentation Capture

Risk Roles and Responsibilities
The Risk Archive

Every project and every organization has structure and infrastructure. Documents, processes, and
other intellectual property serve to facilitate work efforts, project management efforts, and risk
management efforts. The expectation is that the risk manager will fully leverage these structures
to render a more in-depth understanding of the risks in their work and how those risks ultimately
will be addressed. If these do not already exist, the risk manager must research what’s available
in the public domain and create the structures for the current project’s (and future projects’) risk
reviews.

This book focuses on the role of risk management in a project context, but the same principles
apply at the larger program and portfolio levels. Although projects work toward a single, discrete
objective, many of the risks that exist in projects also exist systemically. Project managers and
risk managers alike must leverage the structures for risk management in all environments. An
effective risk manager has at their disposal sources for this information and freely shares those
sources with their peers in the organization’s project community.

After the data sources are gathered, it then becomes the responsibility of the risk manager to
either conduct a thorough analysis of the documents or to identify an individual to conduct that
analysis.

Even before the project is underway, the risk manager should know and create the document
inventory required to make the risk management process effective.

This chapter addresses the following objectives from the PMP RMP® Exam Content Outline:
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quexas en vuestra presencia; no
que yo, señora, de vos me quexe
ni Dios lo quiera, que no deuo
más para que las pasiones que
con mis deseos me aquexan
sepays, por merito de las quales
os suplico que no medido lo que
yo en respecto vuestro me
merezco, mas considerado lo que
por haueros visto e desear ser
vuestro padezco, por tal señora
me acepteys; no para dar más
bien a mi mal de consentir que yo
señora por vuestro seruicio lo
padezca, por que ni más osaria,
señora, pedir, ni tanto me
atreueria creer merecer.

BELISENA
Muchos dias ha, Flamiano, que
conozco en tus meneos lo que el
desuario de tu pensamiento te ha
puesto en la voluntad; e no creas
que muchas vezes dello no haya
recebido enojo, e algunas han
sido que me han puesto en
voluntad de dartelo a entender,
sino que mi reputacion e
honestidad me han apartado
dello, e aun en parte el respecto
de la buena figura en que tu
discrecion hasta agora he tenido.
Mas pues que tu atreuimiento en
tal estremo te ha traydo, que en
mi presencia tu fantasia hayas
osado publicar, forçado me será
responderte, no lo que dezirte
queria segun mi alteracion, mas
segun la vanidad de tu juyzio
merece. Lo qual aunque consejo
te parezca deues tomar por
reprehension; e digo que no te
acontezca semejante
pensamiento poner en parte
differente de ti, donde no puedas
menos hazer de verte cada hora
en infinitas necessidades e al fin
sin ver cabo á lo que desseas,
que lo hayas de ver de tu vida y
de tu honrra. Mas razon seria que
primero ygualasses la medida
donde bastas llegar con el
merecer, que no que publicasses
do querrias subir con el dessear e
aun alli, segun se suele, hallarás
tarde el contentamiento que el
deseo querria.

FLAMIANO
Mis ojos, señora, que de mis
males han sido la causa, no
tuvieron juyzio más de para
miraros e ver las perficiones que
Dios en vos puso, para que
viendoos pusiesen mi corazon en
el fuego que arde; llegada alli
vuestra figura, no pudo menos
hazer de lo que ha hecho. Mi
saber no pudo ser tanto para
temer los inconuenientes de mi
daño que vuestra hermosura no
fuesse más para causallo sin
poder ser resistido. Pues llegado
aqui mi pensamiento determinose
en que lo mucho que el merecer
desyguala mi pena del desseo,
las sobras della misma son tantas
que lo yguala todo, pues que,
señora, mi intencion no os pide
mas de licencia para padescer,
que desta suerte cierto no puede
ser reprouada pues que no es
mala. Ansi que, señora, pues que
tanto la virtud y nobleza en vos
sobra, no useys comigo por el
rasero de la crueza, pues que
mudarse ya mi cuydado es
imposible. E assi de vos no quiero
consejo; remedio es el que pido
pues que no le puedo esperar
sino de vuestra mano.

BELISENA
No creas tú, Flamiano, que la
pasion o males que publicas que
sientes, a mí dellos me plega,
ante en muchas maneras dello
me pesa. Lo vno es que á mi
causa siendo en mi perjuyzio tú
los padezcas. Lo segundo que te
atreues á ponerte en ello y aun
publicarlo. De suerte que en
muchas maneras me enojas y en
más me harias plazer y servicio
que dello te dexases. Y esto seria
seruirme como dizes que
desseas; para esto que te digo,
como ya te he dicho, los
inconuenientes de mi estado y de
mi condicion y honestidad me dan
inconueniente no solo para que
como hago dello reciba mucho
enojo, mas para que tú aunque
mill vidas como dizes perdiesses
yo dellas haya de hazer ni cuenta
ni memoria. Assi que lo mejor
será que desto te apartes e en
esto me harás seruicio como
dizes que desseas y aun me
ternas haziendolo contenta; e
pues que tanto mio eres, segun
dizes, yo te mando que lo hagas,
porque quites tu vida de peligro e
aun a mí de ser enojada.

FLAMIANO
Quando, señora, la pena
verdadera de amor como es la
mia está sellada en el alma, pues
que justa razon alli la haya
puesto, en el coraçon está
imprimida de suerte que sin él e
sin ella no pueda salir de alli.
Pues ¿como quereys, señora,
que mi cuydado se mude?, que el
dia primero que os vi, dentro en
mis entrañas e coraçon quedó el
propio traslado vuestro
perfectamente esculpido, e
despues aca quantas estradas
me haueys tirado que son
infinitas, llegadas alli, el fuego que
en tal lugar hallan las funde,
porque son de oro siendo
vuestras e fundidas hallan alli
vuestra effigia e de cada vna
dellas se haze vn otra semejante.
Assi que aunque el coraçon y el
alma con las principales
sacassen, el cuerpo quedaria
lleno con tantas que de aqui a mill
años en mi sepultura se hallarian
dellas sin cuento, e aun en todos
mis huessos se hallaria vuestro
nombre escripto en cada vno.
Ansi, que señora, si quereys que
de quereros me aparte, mandad
sacar mis huessos e raer de alli
vuestro nombre, e de mis
entrañas quitar vuestra figura,
porque ya en mi está conuertido
en que si alguno me pide quien so
digo que vuestro. E si esto a
desuario se me juzgasse, mayor
lo haria quien tal quissiese juzgar,
porque no hay nayde que con mis
ojos, señora, os mire que no
conozca ser justo lo que hago; e
como ya he dicho, aunque en la
razon mia encobrir lo quisiesse no
puedo, porque el fuego de dentro
haze denunciar a la lengua la
causa. Pero pues que en vuestra
mano está matarme o darme la
vida, e pues que della teneys la
llaue, ved vos si lo podeys hazer
e ganareys la victoria del tal
vencimiento. E si con quitarme la
vida pensays acabarlo, dudolo,
porque aunque del coraçon e las
otras partes vos apartassedes
con matarme, ni mas ni menos en
el alma os quedariades, de do
jamas os podreys quitar porque
es inmortal a causa de estar vos
en ella. E si de mi se partiesse
donde agora mis passiones la
tienen presa y atormentada,
jamas de vuestra presencia se
partiria, donde con mucho
contentamiento estaria contino.
Assi que si agora estando comigo
os enoja ausente, mira que hará
entonces estando presente, e
bien sé que pues agora os
enojays por seros yo de mi grado
captiuo, que despues de yo
muerto más enojo recibireys de
vos matadora, e sola esta gloria
que de mi muerte se espera me
basta a mi para que contento
pierda la vida, pues que con ello
yo seré fuera de pena e vos con
pesar arrepentida. Podreys
señora dezir entonces que no es
vuestro el cargo sino mia la culpa
pues que yo mesmo me lo he
buscado y querido mi daño contra
vuestra voluntad. Entonces mi
alma os negará la partida
diziendo: no, no, no es ansi, que
el cargo, señora, tuyo es pues
que tan cruelmente tan mal le
trataste no pidiendote más bien
de licencia para sofrir su mal sin
ninguna offensa tuya ni más gloria
suya.
 BELISENA
Si sofrirte lo que faces me
offende, oyrte lo que dizes me
perjudica y enoja; ¿qué hará
responder a la vanidad de tus
razones? Yo te he ya dicho lo que
te cumple, bastarte deue para no
esperar mas disputa en este caso
de lo que te conuiene. No delibero
mas sobre ello hablarte, porque
creo que tu discrecion te hará
determinar lo que te cumple. Los
mios vienen, quedate con Dios y
creeme haziendo lo que te tengo
dicho.

FLAMIANO
Digo, señora, finalmente que no
puedo porque ni mi voluntad a
ello no puede doblarse, ni mi
querer puede dello quitarse, e
aunque aquí tan solo de bien e
tan acompañado de pesar me
dexeis, digo que allá donde vos
vays, allá voy, y aunque vos vays,
aqui quedays donde yo quedo,
porque ni allá, ni acá, ni en
ninguna parte donde yo me halle,
nunca vuestra vista de mis ojos
se quita, sino que en mi fantasia
do quiera que esteys, do quier
que esten, los dos juntos
estamos. E si esto, señora, no
creeys, mis obras os haran dello
testigo.
Al fin la señora Belisena se partio
con Isiana e muy enojada, a lo
que mostraua, e llegó a la
compañia de los suyos. Flamiano
quedó a solas, fuesse por otra via
con el consuelo que pensar
podeys; en aquella noche todos
los caualleros cenaron con el
señor cardenal, donde se
concerto de yr venidos de la caça
a vnos baños que ocho millas de
la ciudad estan de la mar, en vn
muy hermoso lugar que Virgiliano
se llama, porque supieron que la
señora duquesa e la princesa de
Salusano con otras muchas
damas se yuan por estar alli todo
el mes de Abril, como cada año
las damas y señoras de
Noplesano acostumbran hazer.
Visto Flamiano que esta jornada
se le aparejaua conforme a su
desseo, suplicó al señor cardenal
que ordenase vn juego de cañas
para el segundo dia de pasqua
que todas las damas ya a
Virgiliano serian venidas. De lo
qual el señor cardenal, fue tan
contento que se ofrecio tener el
vn puesto con la meytad de
aquellos caualleros, desta
manera: que los de su puesto
saldrian a la estradiota vestidos
como turcos con mascaras y
rodelas turquescas, vestidos
todos de las colores que su
señoria les daria, y que jugarian
con alcanzias. E que Flamiano
tuviesse el otro puesto a la gineta
con los otros caualleros que alli
primero se hallaron en la caça. E
que ante que al puesto saliessen,
que saliessen ellos todos juntos e
començassen su juego de cañas
partidos por medio. En el qual
juego él con sus turcos llegaria
como hombre que viene de fuera,
e assi juntados ellos todos,
començarian el otro juego contra
los que en él viniessen. E ansi el
señor cardenal tomó a cargo de
suplicar a la señora princesa que
para aquella noche conbidase a la
señora duquesa e á Belisena, con
todas las otras damas que alli se
hallassen, para que en su posada
aquella noche passado el juego
todas cenassen y alli hiziessen la
fiesta. Pues acabada la caça,
dende a dos dias con mucho
plazer los vnos e los otros todos
juntos a la ciudad se tornaron.
Donde despues de llegados,
Flamiano acordo de enbiar a
Felisel a visitar a Vasquiran con el
qual acordo respondelle a su
carta. E despachado que le houo,
Felisel se partio, e llegado a
Felernissa donde halló a
Vasquiran, despues de hauer
hablado mucho con él en especial
de las cosas dela caça e lo que
en ella se era seguido, la carta de
Flamiano le dió, la qual en esta
manera razonaua.

CARTA DE FLAMIANO Á
VASQUIRAN EN RESPUESTA
DE LA SUYA POSTRERA
No quiero, Vasquiran, dexarme de
responder a tus cartas e quexas,
si quiera porque no pienses que
razon me falta para ello, como a ti
crees que te sobra para lo que
hazes. Yo, si bien me entiendes,
no digo que de la muerte de
Violina no te duelas como es
razon que lo hagas, mas que los
estremos dexes e apartes de ti,
pues que in genere son
reprobados; porque como ya te
he dicho y tú dizes, tus lastimas
todas la muerte las ha causado, y
en verdad al parecer estas son
las mas crudas de sofrir, y al ser
las mas leues de conortar, pues
como dicho tengo, el tiempo e la
razon naturalmente las madura e
aplaca de tal suerte que assi
como la carne muerta en la
sepultura se consume, assi el
dolor que dexa en la viua se
resfria. Porque si assi no fuesse,
muchas madres que
ardientemente los hijos aman e
los pierden, por ser fragiles para
soffrir el dolor con la braueza dél,
con la flaqueza de la complision,
si este remedio el tiempo
naturalmente no les pusiesse, las
mas dellas del seso o de la vida
vernian a menos, e aun algunos
padres lo mismo harian, e otras
muchas personas que de
conjunto amor contentos
acompañados viuian como tú
hazias. Empero como he dicho el
natural remedio lo remedia
continuamente, e donde este
faltasse o si assi no fuese, digo
que por razon más obligado
serias segun quien eres a hazer
lo que digo que lo que hazes, por
muchas causas que ya te tengo
dichas, porque como sabes, la
estremidad del plañir nace de la
voluntad, la virtud del soffrir es
parte de la razon.
Pues mira quan grande es,
nuestra differencia entre la
voluntad é la razon. Lo vno parte
de discrecion e cordura; lo otro o
es o está a dos dedos de locura,
en especial que los virtuosos
varones más son conocidos en
las aduersidades por su buen
seso e sofrimiento que no en las
prosperidades por grandezas ni
gouierno; porque lo vno muchos
respectos lo pudieron causar para
hazerse, lo otro sola virtud lo
templa para sofrirse. Assi que por
todas las partes verás que por
fuerça tu dolor ha de menguar.
Mas ¿qué hare yo que si sola vna
vez que vi a la que mi mal ordena,
de tantos malos me fue causa?
en las otras que la veo ¿qué
puedo sentir? Su ausencia me
atormenta de passion; su
presencia me condena de temor;
su condicion e valer me quitan
esperança; mi suerte y ventura
me hazen desconfiar. Mi pena me
da congoxa incomportable. Lo
que siento me haze dessear la
muerte; remedio en mi no le hay;
della no se espera. E assi tengo
más aparejado el camino de
desesperar que abierta la puerta
de esperança para ningun bien.
Assi que por Dios te ruego que
comiences á poner consuelo en ti,
porque puedas presto con tu
compañia venir a poner remedio
en mí, y con tal confiança me
quedo cantando este villancico
que a mi proposito haze y a mi
pesar he hecho.

Yo consiento por seruiros

mi muerte sin que se sienta
vos señora no contenta.
El primer dia que os vi
tan mortal fue mi herida
que en veros me vi sin vida
y el viuir se vio sin mi,
pues que en viendoos
consenti
mis males que son sin cuenta,
vos señora mal contenta.
 Consenti verme sin ella
solamente por miraros
y por solo dessearos
tuue por bueno perdella;
y más que los males della
quise qu'el alma los sienta
y vos dello descontenta.
Consenti que mi tormento
tan secreto fuese y tal,
que el menor mal de mi mal
diesse muerte al sentimiento;
quise más qu'el soffrimiento
que lo suffra y lo consienta
por hazeros más contenta.
De suerte que mis sospiros
aunque sean sin compas
los quiero sin querer mas
de quereros y seruiros,
sin más remedio pediros
de la muerte que m'afrenta
que veros della contenta.

LAS COSAS QUE VASQUIRAN

CONTO A FELISEL
DESPUES DE LEYDA LA
CARTA, QUE LE HAUIAN
SEGUIDO YENDO A CAÇA
Despues de leyda Vasquiran la
carta que Felisel le dió, hablando
de muchas cosas Felisel le conto
todas las cosas de la caça, assi
de los caualleros y damas que en
ella fueron como de los atauios
que todos sacaron, e aun parte de
lo que su señor con Belisena
passó hablandose con ella a
solas. Pues hauiendolo todo muy
bien relatado, otro dia
paseandosse los dos como otras
vezes solian por vna sala,
Vasquiran le començo á dezir:
Pues que ayer, Felisel, me
contaste todos los mysterios de la
caça que allá haueys tenido, e
aun lo que a tu señor en ella le
siguio, quiero contarte lo que a mi
en otra me ha acontecido.
Flamiano, como dizes, fue por
acompañar a quien de
enamorados pensamientos
acompañado le tiene e aun por
dar con su vista descanso a sus
ojos. Yo por acompañar a mi
soledad de mas soledad e por dar
a los mios con ella de lagrimas
más compañia con menos atauios
e mas angustias la semana
passada tambien me fuy á caça,
en la qual me acontecio lo que
agora oyras.

RECUENTA VASQUIRAN Á
FELISEL LO QUE LE
ACONTECIO EN LA CAÇA, E
LA OBRA QUE SOBRE ELLO
HIZO
Estando con sus canes estos mis
seruidores en sus paradas
puestos como yo los hauia
dexado, contecio que vn ciervo e
vna cierva juntos en la vna dellas
dieron, de que dadas laxas a los
perros començaron a seguirlos
por vna llanura que entrellos e un
bosque se hazia. E siendo los
canes muy buenos dieronles vn
alcance en el cual la cierua se
houo de apartar de su compañia e
vino a dar donde yo estaua, por
su desventura e la mia, e assi
como yo la vi venir salile por el
traues adelante e ante que al
bosque llegasse la maté.
Llegados alli parte destos mis
seruidores, porque ya era algo
tarde mandela cargar sobre vna
azemila con la otra caça que
muerto hauiamos, y yo comence
a venirme la via de aquella
eredad mia a donde la otra vez
me hallaste, e seyendo ya al
aquanto del bosque alongados,
sentimos los mayores bramidos
del mundo, los quales por nos
oydos, paramos por saber qué
podria ser, e vimos venir vn cieruo
que en el bosque se nos era
entrado bramando, y era el que
en compañia de la cierua venia, el
qual ni por el temor de los canes
que al encuentro le salieron, ni
por lo que los mios le ocuparon
jamas dexó de hazer su via hasta
llegar al azemila do la cierua
venia cargada. E como yo lo vi
pense lo que podia ser como fue,
aunque milagro parezca, e assi
mandé que ninguno le hiziesse
daño. Pues llegado que fue do su
dolor lo guiaua, començo á dar de
nuevo muy mayores bramidos
derramando de los ojos infinitas
lagrimas. Como tal le vi hazer
tanto dolor, començo a refrescar
en mi llaga, que temiendo en mi
algun desmayo que afrenta me
hiziesse, mandé lo dexassen
estar e segui mi camino para
donde él yva, mas como nos vido
partir, con mayores gemidos
començo a seguirnos hasta llegar
do yo yva, de donde jamas se es
partido. Como esto vi mandé que
a la cierua desollassen el cuero e
lo hinchiessen de feno e dentro
en el jardin lo colgassen en vna
lonja que en el hay tan alto que el
ciervo solamente pudiesse
alcançar a su cabeça. E desde
aquel dia que alli lo pusieron
mandé meter dentro al cieruo e
jamas de donde la cierua está se
es partido, saluo cuando
costreñido de la hambre algun
poco por la huerta a pacer se
aparta. Pusome tanta tristeza ser,
Felisel, lo que te he contado, que
despues de hauer cenado a solas
retraydo en mi camara,
veniendome a la memoria todas
mis glorias pasadas y la congoxa
presente, juzgando por lo que
este irracional hazia lo que de
razon yo deuia hazer, con infinitas
lagrimas comence contra mí
maldiziendo mi desuentura a dezir
infinitas e muy lastimeras
palabras, tantas que largo seria
contarlas. Saluo que estando assi
yo me senti assi venir a menos el
sentido e no sé si trasportado del
juyzio o si de dolor y del sueño
vencido, yo vi en vision todas las
cosas que a tu amo embio dentro
en una carta que le tengo ya
escripta, lo qual verás en versos
rimados conpuestos más como
supe que como deuiera o
quisiera. E despues hize sobre
este caso deste cieruo esta
cancion, la qual no he querido
que tu amo la vea, por que no
halle en ella con que responder a
mi carta como suele.

¿Que dolor puedo quexar

de mis angustias e males
viendo que los animales
mayor sienten mi pesar?
Quexaré de mi dolor
que es tan crudo su tormento
que vn bruto sin sentimiento
le siente mucho mayor,
de pesar que yo le siento,
mas no se puede ygualar
con mis angustias mortales
porque ell alma de mis males
mayor siente mi pesar.

Acabado que houo de decirle la

cancion le dixo: Felisel, yo querria
que mañana te partiesses, porque
llevasses a Flamiano vn cauallo
mio de la gineta con vn gentil
jaez, que agora poco ha me han
traydo de España, porque
aproueche para el, pues que a mí
ya seruir no me puede. Querria
que llegasses a tiempo que para
el juego de las cañas que me has
dicho le siruiesse. Otro dia
recebido Felisel el cauallo e la
carta se partio. E llegado a
Noplesano, halló que Flamiano
con todos los caualleros eran ya
partidos para Virgiliano, porque la
señora duquesa e la princesa con
todas las damas ya estauan alli.
Donde otro dia Felisel llegó, con
el qual Flamiano holgó mucho e
houo mucho plazer de oyrle
contar lo que a Vasquiran hauia
acontecido e tambien con el
cauallo que era muy bueno y el
jaez muy rico, en especial
llegando a tal tiempo. Y recebida
la carta començola a leer la qual
assi dezia.

CARTA DE VASQUIRAN Á
FLAMIANO EN RESPUESTA DE
LA SUYA
Quanto mejor seria, Flamiano,
que a esta question pusiessemos
silencio que no proseguirla, pues
que tan poco prouecho a los dos
nos acarrea. Tú me dizes que no
me reprueuas porque de mi mal
me duelo pues que es razon que
lo haga, sino que no deuo tanto
en estremo dolerme. Mi mal
quisiera yo que limitaras que no
fuera tan grande, que mi tristeza
pequeña es para con él. Dizes
que como la carne muerta en la
sepultura se consume, assi el
dolor que dexa en la viua se
resfria; falso es esse argumento
pues en mi que lo prueuo por el
contrario lo veo. Tornasme a
alegar las mugeres que perderian
el sentido si por esto no fuesse. A
la fe por ser ellas flacas de
sentido e fragiles pierden dello la
memoria, que no por lo que dizes.
Si honesto me fuesse alegarte
cosas de nuestra fe, vna cosa te
diria de la que no tuvo par, que en
tal caso hizo, con que callasses.
Tambien me alegas como
philosopho lo que de la voluntad o
de la razon parte, quál es auto
mas virtuoso, e das lexos del
terrero, que los que desso han
glossado, en especial Juan de
Mena e muchos no ponen
contraste en tal caso, entre la
voluntad e la razon, saluo de
aquellos apetitos que
viciosamente muestra naturaleza,
desseo voluntario, que el dolerse
nadie de la cosa amada de puro
amor e gratitud y contentamiento
que le tenia, le parte viendola
perdida. Pues estos autos
virtuosos y razonables son, que
no voluntad voluntaria. Ansi que
no te cale philosophia comigo que
poco te aprouecharia ni a
Aristoteles si mi mal sintiera. Mas
sabía el Petrarca que no tú ni yo,
mas ya sabes lo que respondio
siendo juzgado porque a cabo de
veynte años que madama Laurea
era muerta la plañia e la seruia,
quando dixo: ¿Que salud dió a mi
herida quebrarse la cuerda del
arco? Nunca de tu mal vi ningun
martir e del mio verás todas las
poesias y escripturas dende que
el mundo se començo hasta
agora llenas, de lo que aun la
sangre del martir Garcisanchez
viua tenemos e no oluidada la del
mesmo Petrarca que te he dicho,
sin otros infinitos que dellos no se
escriue. Tú no hallas remedio
para ti que cada dia hablas o
puedes hablar a quien te pena;
quieresle hallar para mi que no le
tengo. Tambien me dizes que la
primera vista tanto tanto mal te
causó, ¿que sentiras en las
otras? Digo que la primera vez te
enamoró, las otras te
reenamoran, todo el mal que te
causa su ausencia es desseo de
verla. El que te haze su presencia
es desseo de codiciarla. En fin,
son vanidades que la vna con la
otra se texen; mas si lo quieres