Comedy and Chivalry in Tirant lo Blanc

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• Daniel Eisenberg, Castilian Romances of Chivalry in the Sixteenth Century: A Bibliography, RBC, 23 (London: Grant and Cutler, 1979).
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• Martí de Riquer, Història de la literatura catalana, II (Barcelona: Ariel, 1964), 578, asserts that Tirant is not a ‘llibre de cavalleries’ but a ‘novel la cavalleresca’. Cf. Luis Nicolau d'Olwer, ‘Tirant lo Blanc: examen de algunas cuestiones', Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, XV (1961), 131–54 (150–51).
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• Lectura y lectores en la España de los siglos XVI y XVII (Madrid: Turner, 1976), 98.
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• Joanot Martorell and Martí Joan de Galba, Tirant lo Blanc, ed. Martí de Riquer (Barcelona: Ariel, 1979), chap. 123, p. 190. Numbers in parentheses after future quotations refer to chapters and pages in this edition.
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• ‘Carta de batalla por Tirant lo Blanc’, in Tirant lo Blanc, trans. J. F. Vidal Jové (Madrid: Alianza, 1969), I, 9–41 (10).
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• An annotated edition of all Martorell's lletres de batalla is included in Martin de Riquer and Mario Vargas Llosa, El combate imaginario (Barcelona: Barrai, 1972). The lletres are reproduced without notes in Riquer's edition of Tirant lo Blanc, already cited.
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• Quotations are from Emilio Bigi's edition (Milan: Rusconi, 1982) and are identified by canto, stanza, and, where appropriate, line numbers within the stanza.
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• Like most scholars, I assume that Martorell was primarily responsible for Tirant. Galba's share is still a matter of controversy. See Riquer, Història, II, 706.
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• Both the difficulty of understanding the priest's remark, which Clemencín called ‘el pasaje más oscuro del Quijote’, and its importance for an understanding of Cervantes' novel have been exaggerated. The most satisfactory discussion is B. Sanvisenti, ‘Il passo più oscuro del Chisciotte', RFE, IX (1922), 58–62, which has been accepted, sometimes with modifications, by several later writers.
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• See Maxime Chevalier, L'Arioste en Espagne (1530–1650): recherches sur l'influence du ‘Roland furieux’ (Bordeaux: Institut d'Etudes Ibériques et Ibéro-Américaines de l'Université de Bordeaux, 1966), 57–59.
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