«The story of Leander and Hero», by Joan Roís de Corella (1435-1497)a multilingual edition of a classic from the Crown of Aragon
- Cortijo Ocaña, Antonio ed. lit.
- Martos Sánchez, Josep Lluís ed. lit.
Editorial: John Benjamins
ISBN: 978-90-272-4018-7
Año de publicación: 2016
Tipo: Libro
Resumen
Joan Roís de Corella is one of the most renowned authors of fifteenth-century Catalan literature. His Story of Leander and Hero uses a well-known Vergilian and Ovidian motif of unremitting love that turns into tragedy. Corella retells the story adding to it a great dose of suspense and pathos and recasts it in the fashion of sentimental prose, a genre famous at the time and a clear precedent of the great narrative genre to flourish during the Renaissance in the Iberian Peninsula and Europe: the novel.