The Diana

…long Spanish prose romance titled Los siete libros de la Diana (1559?; The Seven Books of the Diana) by Jorge de Montemayor. Shakespeare is thought to have adapted the relationship of the two gentlemen of the title and the ending of the play from various possible sources, including Richard Edwards’s…

…long Spanish prose romance, the Diana of Jorge de Montemayor.

…in about 1559, of the Diana by the Spanish poet and novelist Jorge de Montemayor. Both works were widely influential in translation, and each has claims to be regarded as the first pastoral romance, but in spirit Diana is the true inheritor of the romance tradition, giving it, in alliance…

The Diana), which started a fashion subscribed to by the Spanish writers Miguel de Cervantes and Lope de Vega, among others, and represented one of the outstanding Portuguese contributions to the development of the novel as a genre. Barros’s chivalric novel Crónica do imperador Clarimundo…

…Los siete libros de la Diana (1559?; “The Seven Books of the Diana”), was inspired in part by Jacopo Sannazzaro’s pastoral romance Arcadia and included translations from León Hebreo’s Dialoghi d’amore (1535). Diana went through many editions, was widely translated, and started a literary fashion in the Renaissance that spread…

Jorge de Montemayor’s Diana (1559?) initiated Spain’s pastoral vogue, which was later cultivated by such major writers as Cervantes (La Galatea, 1585) and Lope de Vega (La Arcadia, 1598).