by Don Juan Manuel · Editorial Vicens Vives · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788431615345
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«El conde Lucanor» is the educational adaptation of Don Juan Manuel's tales, in the «Clásicos Adaptados» collection from Vicens Vives, in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
Count Lucanor lives a busy life in medieval Castile and consults his advisor Patronio, who answers him with moral tales to solve his problems. The selection includes stories such as that of the dean who became Pope in a single night and that of the young man who faked a murder to test his friends.
Edition adapted by Agustín Sánchez Aguilar and illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus. Second edition, published on 23 May 2014 by Vicens Vives, with prologue, notes and activities.
Recommended as supplementary material for secondary school students and for readers who want to approach the medieval classic in modern Spanish.
Don Juan Manuel was a Spanish medieval writer, nephew of Alfonso X of Castile, son of Manuel of Castile and Beatrice of Savoy. He inherited from his father the great Lordship of Villena, receiving the titles of Lord, Duke and lastly Prince of Villena. He married three times, choosing his wives for political and economic convenience, and worked to match his children with partners associated with royalty. Juan Manuel became one of the richest and most powerful men of his time, coining his own currency as the kings did. During his life, he was criticised for choosing literature as his vocation, an activity thought inferior for a nobleman of such prestige.
