Abstract

Throughout time mankind has resigned himself to the changeability of Fortune. Each cultural expression has approached this topic from a different paint of view. On the basis of the comparison between the concepts of Fortune in Petrarca, Metge and Martorell, the author analyses the progressive modernity which arises at the end of the Middle Ages in both the literary and the ethical fields. Júlia Butinyà reviews the different episodes of the Tirant lo Blanch, and Petrarca's De Remediis and Metge's Lo somni which confirm the different stages on the concept of Fortune. If Petrarca proposes to rationally control passions in order to counteract the actions of Fortune, Metge contradicts him and exposes the bad predictions expressed in Tirant lo Blanch: Fortune does not respect these who are virtuous either.

Abstract

On the basis of a testament until now considered as lost, the author offers new documental evidence on Joan Roís de Corella's date of birth. This new information is particularly relevant at a moment when Corella's influence on writers, like for instance Joanot Martorell, is very much under scrutiny.

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After a quick survey of the rules about the art of kissing in the courtly love tradition and in the French artes amandi of the Middle Ages, this paper focuses on the moral rules about the kiss diffused in the books by the grey friar Francesc Eiximenis (1327-1409). The discussion about the kiss in chapter 176 of the Tirant lo Blanc –a me­dieval chivalric romance written by Joanot Martorell between 1460 and 1468– is approached through the contrast between Eiximenis' moral rules and the profan rules. As a result of this analysis a better understanding of the ideas and attitudes of the romance heroes is achieved.

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When analysing Martorell' s novel we find a recurrent feature suclt as the re-utilisation of differentliterary sourees. This re-utilisations may prevent the reader from grasping the key points of Tirant lo Blanch. From this point of view Rafael Alemany analyses the Valencian author's modus operandi when reusing texts such as Llibre d'ordre de cavalleria, Lancelot en prosa or Voyage d'outre mer and the new spirit present in Tirant. On the other hand, the study of the sources of this Valencian work can enable us to confirm the hypothesis that Tirant lo Blanch was written only by one author.

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From the inventory of books that Matias Mercader possessed, Wittlin raises doubts about the role of this family as cultural mentors proposed by several crítics, and in particular he qüestions the influence this library might have had on the literary and intellectual background of Joanot Martorell.