Ovid and the Renascence in Spain

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS

IN

MODERN PHILOLOGY

Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 1-268 November 19, 1913

OVID AND THE RENASCENCE IN SPAIN

BY

RUDOLPH SCHEVILL

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

BERKELEY

1913

OVID AND THE RENASCENCE IN SPAIN^[1]

BY

RUDOLPH SCHEVILL

CONTENTS

		PAGES
Introduction		2
I.	The Middle Ages	6
1.	The Beginnings of the Study of Ovid and of his Influence on Mediaeval Literature	6
2.	El Libro de buen Amor by the Arcipreste de Hita and its Indebtedness to Ovid	28
3.	The Art Lyric of the Fifteenth Century	55
II.	The Beginnings of Renascence Fiction	87
1.	The Influence of Ovid and The Ovidian Tale	87
2.	The Origin of The Ovidian Tale in Italy	101
3.	The Continuation of the Ovidian Tradition in Spanish Prose Fiction	114
4.	The Ovidian Tale and Cervantes	132
III.	The Metamorphoses retold in Spanish	143
1.	The Translations of Viana, and Bustamante	143
2.	General Features of the Version of Bustamante. The Machin ery of Adventure in Contemporary Romances. The Persiles y Sigismunda of Cervantes	163
3.	Classical Mythology, Ovid and Cervante	174
IV.	The general Indebtedness to Ovid of the Siglo de Oro	199
1.	Various Types of Prose Narrative	199
2.	Lope de Vega and Ovid	211
3.	Lyric Poetry of the Sixteenth Century	226

APPENDICES

CONTENTS		PAGES
I.	Bibliographical Appendix	234
II.	Epistola VII, Dido Aeneae, of Ovid's Heroides in a Mediaeval Spanish Version	251
III.	The Life of Ovid added by Fernán Núñez to his Commentary on Juan de Mena's el Laberinto de Fortuna	263
IV.	Bustamante's Version of the Tale of Pyramus and Thisbe	234

↑ This is the fourth contribution to a series called originally Studies in Cervantes; I: Persiles y Sigismunda, Modern Philology (Chicago), vol. iv, no. 1, 1906; II: Heliodorus, Modern Philology, vol. iv, no. 4, 1907; III: Virgil's Aeneid, Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol, xiii, 1908.