Jorge de Montemayor

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Jorge de Montemayor ( Portuguese Jorge de Montemor ) (* around 1520 in Montemor-o-Velho , Portugal; † February 26, 1561 in Turin ) was a Portuguese singer, translator and poet.

Life

Not much is known about the life of Montemayor. It is believed that he came from a humble background and had no knowledge of Latin. He entered the military at an early age, then went to Castile , where he became a singer in the royal chapel, accompanied Philip II on his travels and in 1552 came to the Portuguese court in the wake of Princess Johanna , where he stayed for several years. He died in a duel in 1561.

plant

Through his famous, but unfinished Diana (first edition published in 1559 in Valencia and Milan), which is characterized by the art of invention and character drawing as well as by the beauty of language and is considered classic, Montemayor invented the Castilian shepherd novel , which is featured in the most recent European literatures Caused imitations. The novel in Spanish is characterized by musical and poetic passages. It is about the unfulfilled love of a man named Sireno, whom the goddess Fortuna freed from his torments of love. The work was banned in Portugal in 1581 due to ecclesiastical objections.

In the following years numerous continuations of Diana appeared , for example by Alonso Perez and Gaspar Gil Polo ( Diana enamorada , Valencia 1564). We also have a collection of poems from Montemayor: Cancionero (Saragossa 1561), as well as three small "cars" and a translation of the poetry of the Troubadour Ausiàs March from 1562.

Overview of the works:

  • Diálogo espiritual, 1548
  • Exposición moral sobre el salmo LXXXVI, 1548
  • Los siete libros de la Diana, 1559
  • Cancionero, 1561

literature

  • Jorge de Montemayor: La Diana , translation into English by RoseAnna M. Mueller, Lewiston 1989.
  • Ramón Massó Ortega: Historia sinóptica de la Literatura Espaǹola. Introducciones, cuadros sinópticos y anexos , Alicante 2004.

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personal data
SURNAME Montemayor, Jorge de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montemor, Jorge de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese poet and singer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1520
PLACE OF BIRTH Montemor-o-Velho , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1561
Place of death Turin