%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°Volent escriure a vostra consolaci¨® e plaer¡±: Metge, Corella and other 14th and 15th century masters of Catalan prose
%A Lola Badia
%J Catalan Historical Review
%D 2010
%I Institut d¡¯Estudis Catalans
%X This article examines literary prose from the leading 14th and 15th century authors who turned care for their style into the centrepiece of their efforts as writers at a time when Catalan scripta had reached maturity, after having become consolidated in the latter part of the 13th century. Bernat Metge and Joan Ro¨ªs de Corella are the most masterful of these writers, both of them trained in imitating Petrarch, the classics (Ovid, Cicero, Virgil and Seneca) and especially in Boccaccio¡¯s writing in the vernacular. We shall also examine the contributions from Antoni Casals, the anonymous author of Curial e G¨¹elfa, Joanot Martorell, Felip de Malla and Francesc Alegre.
%K artful prose
%K reception of Boccaccio and Petrarch
%K imitation of the classics
%K rethoric
%K history of Catalan literature
%U http://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/CHR/article/viewFile/37023/pdf_48