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Secrets of Pinar's game : court ladies and courtly verse in fifteenth-century Spain / by Roger Boase.
LIBRA PQ6058 .B59 2017 v. 1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boase, Roger, author.
- Series:
- Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; v. 17.
- Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts, 0925-7683 ; v. 17/1-2
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Pinar, Geronimo de--Criticism and interpretation.
- Pinar, Geronimo de.
- Pinar, Florencia, active 15th century--Criticism and interpretation.
- Pinar, Florencia.
- Spanish poetry--To 1500--History and criticism.
- Spanish poetry.
- Spanish poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Women and literature--Spain--History--To 1500.
- Women and literature.
- Courts and courtiers in literature.
- Courtly love in literature.
- Card games.
- History.
- Courts and courtiers.
- Spanish poetry--Women authors.
- Spain--Court and courtiers--History--To 1500.
- Spain.
- Castile (Spain)--History--Isabel I, 1474-1504.
- Castile (Spain).
- Card games--Spain--Castile--History--To 1500.
- Spain--Castile.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes (xxi, 916 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
- Summary:
- In Secrets of Pinar's Game, Roger Boase is the first to decipher a card game completed in 1496 for Queen Isabel, Prince Juan, her daughters and her 40 court ladies. This game offers readers access to the cultural memory of a group of educated women, revealing their knowledge of proverbs, poetry and sentimental romance, their understanding of the symbolism of birds and trees, and many facts ignored in official sources. Boase translates all verse into English, reassesses the jousting invenciones in the Cancionero general (1511), reinterprets the poetry of Pinar's sister Florencia, and identifies Acevedo, author of some poems about festivities in Murcia c. 1507. He demonstrates that many of Pinar's ladies reappear as prostitutes in the anonymous Carajicomedia two decades later. Publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 817-866) and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Boase, Roger, author. Secrets of Pinar's game
- ISBN:
- 9789004338357
- 9004338357
- 9789004347328
- 9004347321
- 9789004347311
- 9004347313
- OCLC:
- 967850581
- Publisher Number:
- 40027548025
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