La Diana of Montemayor as Social and Religious Teaching

Jorge de Montemayor's great pastoral novel La Diana (1559), one of the fountainheads of Spanish Renaissance literature, has often been regarded as a work written merely to amuse an effete courtly world. Bruno M. Damiani argues here that, far from being simply a ""pastoral dream,"" Diana has profound socio-historical and religious dimensions, and that Montemayor's intentions in it were largely moral and instructive. The timeless, idyllic nature which forms the essence of the pastoral is, in the ca

Author: Bruno M. Damiani
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780813152202

About the Author

Bruno M. Damiani is professor of romance languages at the Catholic University of America. He is the general editor of Studia Humanitatis and a widely published authority on Spanish literature of the Renaissance.

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