Belianís de Grecia
Belianís de Grecia ( Spanish for Belianís of Greece ) is a courtly novel by Jerónimo Fernández from 1579. It is about a knight of the same name in the style of the legends around the influential Amadis de Gaula . The work became known because it was one of the few books that Don Quixote remained after the autodafé in his library .
The English author Samuel Johnson also studied this book.
literature
- Eithne Henson , “The Fictions of Romantick Chivalry”: Samuel Johnson and Romance , London and Toronto, 1992
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Hardy, "Johnson and Don Bellianis [sic]," Review of English Studies, new series, vol. 17 , 1966, pp. 297-299