206 pp / Paperback / 978-0-7727-2134-1 / $27.95
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Edited and translated by Emily C. Francomano
“This bilingual edition of the Three Spanish Querelle Texts is very well-conceived and will attract a wide audience among specialists and non-specialists alike. Francomano provides the first modern English translations of texts that enjoyed European-wide celebrity in the early sixteenth century. Her introduction is the best available summary of our knowledge about Torrellas’ two texts and Flores’ Grisel y Mirabella. Her translations are more readable than the Spanish texts, dividing Flores’ elaborate, rambling sentences into more comprehensible discourse. She often captures the tone and ambiguous or mock sincerity in the pleadings of both Flores’ and Torrellas’ characters. Francomano has a special sensitivity to the ludic quality of these discourses which helps readers appreciate their expression of ‘male anxiety’ and ‘female agency’ in the gender politics of their era.”
— Mark Johnston, Professor of Spanish, DePaul University
To view an excerpt of this work, please click here (PDF).
Introduction.
I: Pere Torrellas, Maldezir de mugeres / Pere Torrellas, The Slander against Women
II: Pere Torrellas, Razonamiento de Pere Torrella en defensión de las donas contra los maldezientes / Pere Torrellas, The Defense of Ladies against Slanderers
III: Juan de Flores, Grisel y Mirabella / Juan de Flores, Grisel and Mirabella
Bibliography; Index.
Emily C. Francomano is Associate Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University, where she also teaches in the Medieval Studies and Comparative Literature programs. She is the author of Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature (2008), and of articles on Cárcel de amor, the Libro de buen amor, Castilian vernacular Bibles, and medieval romance (Catalan, French, and Spanish).
206 pp / Paperback / 978-0-7727-2134-1 / $27.95 (Price includes applicable taxes)
