The book of fortune and prudence / / Bernat Metge ; translated into English and Spanish with an introduction and notes by Antonio Cortijo Ocaña and Vicent Martines

• Autore: Metge Bernat <approximately 1350-approximately 1410.>
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (122 p.)
• Disciplina: 849/.912
• Altri autori: Cortijo OcañaAntonio MartinesVicent <1965->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 fr
• Titolo autorizzato: The book of fortune and prudence
• ISBN: 90-272-7105-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790426603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IVITRA research in linguistics and literature ; ; v. 6.