BISAC SubjectsLITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval

La «cavalleria umanistica» italiana / The Italian “Humanistic Chivalry”: Enyego (Inico) d’Àvalos e ‘Curial e Guelfa’ / Enyego (Inico) d’Àvalos and ‘Curial e Guelfa’

Edited by Antoni Ferrando and Anna Maria Babbi

This book aims to contribute to the knowledge of the cultural and linguistic relations between Italy and the Crown of Aragon in the 15th century. In particular, it studies some relevant aspects of the chivalric romance entitled Curial e Guelfa, written in Italy around 1443-1448 in Catalan, but… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 29] 2021. xxiii, 208 pp.

The Vindel Parchment and Martin Codax / O Pergamiño Vindel e Martin Codax: The Golden Age of Medieval Galician Poetry / O esplendor da poesía galega medieval

Edited by Alexandre Rodríguez Guerra and Xosé Bieito Arias Freixedo

This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date, multidisciplinary approach to the work of Galician jongleur Martin Codax and the Vindel Parchment. This medieval manuscript with the texts of seven cantigas de amigo by Martin Codax and the music score of six of them, is a philological gem that… read more

[Not in series, 218] 2018. xvi, 343 pp.

Vita coaetanea / A Contemporary Life / Vida coetánea / Vida coetània

Ramon Llull

Winner of the 2018 Premio internazionale Francesco Saverio Nitti per il Mediterraneo in the category "Storia, Letteratura", awarded annually by Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples, Italy.The Vita coaetanea (A Contemporary Life) is an autobiographical account of Ramon Llull’s life… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 15] 2017. v, 205 pp.

The Book of the Order of Chivalry / Llibre de l'Ordre de Cavalleria / Libro de la Orden de Caballería

Ramon Llull

The Book of the Order of Chivalry was written in Catalan by Ramon Llull between 1274 and 1276 and is one of the author’s earliest works. After his death, it achieved a wide dissemination throughout Europe in part because it was considered the theoretical manual on knighthood par excellence. The… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 8] 2015. v, 226 pp.

More about 'Tirant lo Blanc' / Més sobre el 'Tirant lo Blanc': From the sources to the tradition / De les fonts a la tradició

Edited by Anna Maria Babbi and Vicent Josep Escartí

The articles in this volume highlight the fact that the chivalric novel Tirant lo Blanc – written in Valencia by Joanot Martorell in the 15th century and translated into Italian in the 16th century – keeps being relevant in both the Italian and the Iberian Peninsulas, so closely related in past and… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 10] 2015. xiv, 173 pp.

'The Dream' of Bernat Metge / Del Somni d'en Bernat Metge

Bernat Metge

Lo Somni (The Dream) is a dream allegory divided into four chapters or books. It was written ca. 1399 and is considered Bernat Metge’s best work. It is extremely innovative within the context of Catalan (and Iberian Peninsular) literature of the 1300’s. It consists of a dialogue between… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 4] 2013. v, 193 pp.

The Book of Fortune and Prudence

Bernat Metge

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… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 6] 2013. v, 116 pp.