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Author Metge, Bernat, approximately 1350-approximately 1410.

Title The book of fortune and prudence / Bernat Metge ; translated into English and Spanish with an introduction and notes by Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, Vicent Martines
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series IVITRA research in linguistics and literature, 2211-5412 ; v. 6
IVITRA research in linguistics and literature ; v. 6.
Contents The Book of Fortune and Prudence; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents; Introduction; Bernat Metge (1340/1346-1413); Bernat Metge's works; Lo Somni; Llibre de Fortuna e Prudència (MSS copies and Summary of Content); Literary sources; Final considerations; Selected bibliography; Translators note; El Llibre de Fortuna e Prudència / Book of Fortune and Prudence; Index
Summary These new translations of Bernat Metge's Libre de Fortuna e Prudència (1381) into Spanish (verse) and English (prose) make this key early work by 14th-century Catalonia's most challenging writer available to the wider audience it has longed deserved. As with Metge's masterwork, Lo somni (The Dream), recently translated by Cortijo Ocaña and Elisabeth Lagresa (Benjamins, 2013), the writing of The Book of Fortune and Prudence seems to have been precipitated by a larger crisis in Catalan society, in this case, an all-too-familiar-sounding banking crisis. Drawing on sources ranging from Boethius, t
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from Catalan to English
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Subject Metge, Bernat, approximately 1350-approximately 1410.
SUBJECT Metge, Bernat, approximately 1350-approximately 1410 fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Form Electronic book
Author Cortijo Ocaña, Antonio, translator
Martines, Vicent, 1965- translator.
ISBN 9789027271051
9027271054
Other Titles Llibre de fortuna i prudència. English