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“So there are giants at the ball? By the Cross, I shall burn them before nightfall tomorrow.”
Question
a hundred large volumes,
many other smaller ones;
so great was the desire of the two women to see the death of those innocents;
The Four Books of Amadís of Gaul,
the proponent of the doctrine of so harmful a sect,
as a unique example of the art, it should be pardoned.”
Haha
“the Exploits of Esplandián,
Illegitimate, per Wikipedia:
A short time later he and Oriana scandalously consummate their love. Their son Esplandián is the result of this one illicit meeting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amad%C3%ADs_de_Gaula
Haha - personification
Amadís of Greece,
Queen Pintiquiniestra,
shepherd Darinel
the perverse and complicated language of...
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Don Olivante of Laura.”
Felixmarte of Hyrcania,”
Haha - a critic!
The Knight Platir,”
The Knight of the Cross.
The Mirror of Chivalry.”
Turpín,
Ludovico Ariosto,
if he speaks in his own language, I bow down to him.”
Haha
the captain
he took away a good deal of its original value, which is what all who attempt to translate books of poetry into another language will do as well:
the matter of France,
Palmerín
Palmerín
Simile - epic reference
Miraguarda
Don Belianís.”
Knight Tirant lo Blanc.
they must be poetry.”
will read these and want to become a shepherd
what would be even worse, become a poet,
Haha
Montemayor’s Diana,
Diana the Second,
“The one by the Salamancan,”
the one by Gil Polo
The Ten Books of Fortune in Love, composed by Antonio de Lofraso,
no book as amusing or nonsensical has ever been written,
Simile - very fulsome praise.
turn them over to the secular arm of the housekeeper;
Haha
“If there weren’t so many,” said the priest, “they would be more highly esteemed;
Haha - cf. Tottel’s Miscellany of 1557 with 271 poems of various quality.
Keep it, because its author is a friend of mine,
Haha
“La Galatea, by Miguel de Cervantes,”
I know that he is better versed in misfortunes than in verses.
it proposes something and concludes nothing.
