by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475302720
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«Amadís de Gaula I» is the chivalric romance by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, published by Orbis in hardback (377 pages, in Spanish).
The work narrates the life of Amadís, cast into the sea at birth, who becomes the prototype of the perfect knight. To free his beloved Oriana from a kidnapping, he will experience countless fantastic adventures. Cervantes considered it the beginning and origin of the genre: it is the fundamental work of the chivalric romance and a great success of the Golden Age.
First volume of Amadís de Gaula, part of the Historia de la Literatura Española collection.
For readers interested in Spanish Golden Age literature and the origins of the chivalric romance.
Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo was a Castilian author who arranged the modern version of the chivalric romance Amadís de Gaula, originally written in three books in the 14th century by an unknown author. Montalvo incorporated a fourth book in the original series, and followed it with a sequel, Las sergas de Esplandián. It is the sequel that Montalvo is most often noted for, mainly because within the book he coined the word California.
