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Aesop's Fables - With a Life of Aesop (Hardcover)
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Aesop's Fables - With a Life of Aesop (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Romance Languages
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In 1489 Johan Hurus printed the first collection of fables in
Spain, Lavida del Ysopetconsusfabulas hystoriadas. Illustrated with
nearly 200 woodcuts, this work quickly became the most-read book in
Spain, beloved of both children and adults. Reprinted many times in
the next three centuries and carried to the New World, it brought
to Spanish letters a cornucopia of Aesopic fables, oriental
apologues, and folktales that were borrowed by such writers as
Cervantes, Lope de Vega, and especially the fabulists Iriarte and
Samaniego. John Keller and Clark Keating now present the first
English translation of this important literary work. The Latin and
German lineage of La vida was significant, for it placed Spain in
the mainstream of European fable lore. The highly fictitious life
of Aesop, the misshapen Greek slave who reached the highest social
level, contributed to the development of medieval romance and the
picaresque novel. The book is thus important to students of
comparative literature, literary history, and the development of
the Spanish language. Of equal value are the woodcuts, which depict
the daily life of medieval Europe and contribute to a better
understanding of fifteenth-century art history, bookmaking, natural
history, and the visualization of narrative. La vida del Ysopet
thus constitutes one of the finest concordances of text and
illustration in European literary history.
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