by Jaume Roig · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429714449
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«Espill o llibre de les dones» is the poem by Jaume Roig, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (240 pages, in Catalan).
Written in noves rimades, the poem narrates the life of a man who, after a wandering phase, tries to settle down through marriage and fails repeatedly, until he takes refuge in contemplation and penance. The secondary stories, with a Boccaccian air, support Roig's moral lesson and offer a fresco of life in fifteenth-century Valencia.
It belongs to the collection Les Millors Obres de la Literatura Catalana (MOLC), volume 3, edited by Marina Gustà with a prologue by Joaquim Bergés.
For readers interested in medieval Catalan literature and poetry.
Jaume Roig was a doctor in the city of València and the author of Espill (Mirror), a work of medieval literature in the Valencian/Catalan language. Together with Ausiàs March, and Isabel de Villena, Jaume Roig is one of the three writers chosen by Henry W. Longfellow to summarise the literature of the 15th century in the Catalan language.
