The Fortune of Curial e Güelfa (from discovery
to edition)
The context in which the manuscript of the
medieval novel Curial e Güelfa was discovered in
the second half of the 19th century, together with the fact that
Manuel Milà i Fontanals did not encourage the dissemination of this
finding, created some doubt about the circumstances surrounding the
finding of Curial by the Catalan scholar: which
reactions did the announcement of the news provoke? Why was it not
edited by Milà i Fontanals himself? Which role did intellectuals
such as Antonio Paz y Melia, head of the Manuscript Section of the
Spanish National Library, and Antoni Rubió i Lluch, the first editor
of Curial e Güelfa, play in the dissemination of
this work in the last third of the 19th century?
Article outline
- A thread of controversy
- The existence of the manuscript
- The printing of Curial
- The discoverers of Curial e Güelfa
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