Spain First edition, 1490 Joanot Martorell Tirant lo Blanch A Valencian knight named Joanot Martorell replaced his sword with a pen on January 2, 1460, in order to narrate the adventures of a fictional knight. This undertaking resulted in...
Spain First edition, 1496; oldest extant edition, 1508. Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo Amadís de Gaula Amadis de Gaula (Amadis of Gaul) was the most famous and bravest knight in the entire Hispanic literary tradition, that is, until a crazy gentleman in a...
Germany First printed in 1517 Maximilian I et al., Theuerdank Composed in rhymed couplets, the German epic Theuerdank narrates the adventures of the eponymous knight on his journey to meet his fiancée, Princess Ehrenreich. First printed in 1517 by...
Italy Composed: 1506-1532 CEPublished: 1516; 1521; 1532 Lodovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso is a continuation of the romance epic Orlando Innamorato, which was left unfinished at the ninth canto of Book Three when Boiardo died in...
Central America Recorded in writing c. 1554-1558; transcription in K’iche’ and Spanish translation in 18th century Anonymous Popol Wuj (Popol Vuh, Pop Wuj) “One of the several surviving—in some ways, thriving—highland Maya groups in Guatemala is the...
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