Los siete libros de la Diana tiene como precedente las eglogas de Garcilaso de la Vega y la poesia pastoril de Espana. La Diana se distingue por ser escrita en una mezcla de verso y prosa y por unificar diversos ambientes en la misma historia. Entre otros, incluye el ambiente pastoril, el sobrenatural, el urbano y aun el morisco. La familia arabe de los Abencerrajes fue muy influyente en Granada durante el siglo XV. Su rivalidad con la de los Cegries, en constantes guerras civiles, fue decisiva en la caida del reino de Granada. Esta historia fue incorporada a la Diana de Montemayor en su segunda edicion de 1561.

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First critical edition of Spanish pastoral romance of the Golden Age. This volume is the first critical edition of Montemayor's Los siete libros de la Diana, the first Spanish pastoral romance, using eight of the earliest editions extant. The base text used is Zaragoza 1560, without the errors noted in the collatio, and therefore the closest to the archetype; variants, notes and corrections based on the stemma are presented in footnotes. An introductory chapter discusses the problem of the date of the first composition and publication of the work. Reproductions of the title-pages of the editions used, preliminary poems, additions to the text (except that of Abindarraez) and water-marks form an appendix. JULIAN ARRIBAS is Professor of Spanish at Presbyterian College, Clinton, South Carolina.

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