Martí Joan de Galba

Martí Joan de Galba († 1490 ) was a Catalan aristocrat and co-author of the Valencian knight epic Tirant lo Blanc . The main author of the work, Joanot Martorell , was a friend of Galba and entrusted the unfinished work to him shortly before his death in early 1465. Galba completed and revised the work based on the notes and sketches left by Martorell. The exact share of Galba in the epic is unclear, it is assumed that he wrote about the last quarter and also revised the previous original text himself in some places, especially the episodes set in North Africa are attributed to Galba. Shortly after Galba's death, the epic was finally published in 1490.

Works

with Joanot Martorell: Tirant lo Blanc (Valencia 1490) ( English translation by Project Gutenberg )
The novel of the white knight Tirant lo Blanc . Abridged edition. Translated from the Old Catalan by Fritz Vogelgsang. Fischer , Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-10-042603-7

Individual evidence

↑ Arthur Terry: Tirant lo Blanc: New Approaches . Tamesis 1999, ISBN 1855660687 , pp. 62–67, 98–99, 113–115 ( Google extract )
^ Germán Bleiberg (Ed.), Maureen Ihrie (Ed.), Janet Pérez (Ed.): Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula - Volume 2 . Greenwood Publishing Group 1993, ISBN 0313287325 , p. 1044 ( Google extract )

personal data
SURNAME	Galba, Martí Joan de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	writer
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
DATE OF DEATH	1490

[1] Arthur Terry: Tirant lo Blanc: New Approaches . Tamesis 1999, ISBN 1855660687 , pp. 62–67, 98–99, 113–115 ( Google extract )

[2] Germán Bleiberg (Ed.), Maureen Ihrie (Ed.), Janet Pérez (Ed.): Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula - Volume 2 . Greenwood Publishing Group 1993, ISBN 0313287325 , p. 1044 ( Google extract )