The Story of Leander and Hero, by Joan Rois de Corella: A Multilingual Edition of a Classic from the Crown of Aragon

ISBN-13: 9789027240187 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 238 str.

Joan Rois De Corella; Antonio Cortijo Ocana; Josep-Lluis Martos

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Joan Rois 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."