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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.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series IVITRA research in linguistics and literature, 2211-5412 ; v. 6
IVITRA research in linguistics and literature ; v. 6.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language Translated from Catalan to English.
Subject Metge, Bernat, approximately 1350-approximately 1410.
Metge, Bernat, approximately 1350-approximately 1410.
Metge, Bernat, approximately 1350-approximately 1410.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Cortijo Ocaña, Antonio, translator.
Martines, Vicent, 1965- translator.
Added Title Llibre de fortuna i prudència. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013054101
Other Form: Print version: Metge, Bernat, approximately 1350-approximately 1410. Llibre de fortuna i prudència. English. Book of fortune and prudence 9789027240125 (DLC) 2013029751 (OCoLC)854497744
ISBN 9789027271051 (electronic book)
9027271054 (electronic book)
9789027240125
9027240124