The Story of Leander and Hero, by Joan Roís de Corella
Author | : Joan Rois de Corella |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2016-06-14 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9027266646 |
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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.