Montemayor's Diana (1564)
ONLY THREE KNOWN COPIES
MONTEMAYOR, Jorge de (c. 1521-1561)
Primera Diana de George de Monte Mayor … la historia de piramo y Tysbe. Grenada: Rene Rebut, 1564
Jorge de Montemayor's famous romance novel, written in Castilian, influenced Cervantes, Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare, who based the cross-dressing love-triangle plot of The Two Gentlemen of Verona on Book 2 of Diana. The magic love-juice in A Midsummer Night’s Dream was suggested by Diana as well, and both incorporate the story of Pyramus and Thisbe.
See Thomas Amherst Perry, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the Spanish Diana,” Modern Philology 87 (1989): 73-76.
Octavo. Original parchment binding, 548 pages. Title-page restored on heavy laid paper, perhaps from another copy or possibly an early facsimile. Manuscript annotations on front and rear flyleaves.
The Universal Short Title Catalogue lists only three known copies not including the present one.
References: USTC 346385, Iberian Books Pre-1601, 13252
ONLY THREE KNOWN COPIES
MONTEMAYOR, Jorge de (c. 1521-1561)
Primera Diana de George de Monte Mayor … la historia de piramo y Tysbe. Grenada: Rene Rebut, 1564
Jorge de Montemayor's famous romance novel, written in Castilian, influenced Cervantes, Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare, who based the cross-dressing love-triangle plot of The Two Gentlemen of Verona on Book 2 of Diana. The magic love-juice in A Midsummer Night’s Dream was suggested by Diana as well, and both incorporate the story of Pyramus and Thisbe.
See Thomas Amherst Perry, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the Spanish Diana,” Modern Philology 87 (1989): 73-76.
Octavo. Original parchment binding, 548 pages. Title-page restored on heavy laid paper, perhaps from another copy or possibly an early facsimile. Manuscript annotations on front and rear flyleaves.
The Universal Short Title Catalogue lists only three known copies not including the present one.
References: USTC 346385, Iberian Books Pre-1601, 13252
ONLY THREE KNOWN COPIES
MONTEMAYOR, Jorge de (c. 1521-1561)
Primera Diana de George de Monte Mayor … la historia de piramo y Tysbe. Grenada: Rene Rebut, 1564
Jorge de Montemayor's famous romance novel, written in Castilian, influenced Cervantes, Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare, who based the cross-dressing love-triangle plot of The Two Gentlemen of Verona on Book 2 of Diana. The magic love-juice in A Midsummer Night’s Dream was suggested by Diana as well, and both incorporate the story of Pyramus and Thisbe.
See Thomas Amherst Perry, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the Spanish Diana,” Modern Philology 87 (1989): 73-76.
Octavo. Original parchment binding, 548 pages. Title-page restored on heavy laid paper, perhaps from another copy or possibly an early facsimile. Manuscript annotations on front and rear flyleaves.
The Universal Short Title Catalogue lists only three known copies not including the present one.
References: USTC 346385, Iberian Books Pre-1601, 13252