The Theory of Love in the Two "Dianas:" A Contrast
1959; Liverpool University Press; Volume: 36; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3828/bhs.36.2.65
ISSN1478-3398
Autores Tópico(s)Medieval Iberian Studies
ResumoGil Polo's Diana is commonly regarded as a straightforward continuation of Montemayor's which, allowing for the natural differences in literary technique between the two authors, adds nothing new to the treatment of pastoral in the earlier book. This view implies that there is no significant difference between Montemayor's and Gil Polo's approach to the central concern of all pastoral: the subject of love. In my opinion, this is far from being so, and there is a very real difference between the two. I am confirmed in this belief by the remarks on the subject of the Italian scholar Mario Casella. In the suggestive chapter devoted to Spanish pastoral in his book on Don Quijote, Casella draws an essential distinction between the two Dianas, and points to the inherent reasonableness of love in Gil Polo.
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