Historia de los vandos de los Zegris y Abencerrages Caualleros Moros de Granada

[Pérez de Hita (Ginés)]

Historia de los vandos de los Zegris y Abencerrages Caualleros Moros de Granada

de la Civiles guerras que huvo en ella... Agora nuevamente sacada de un libro Aravigo, cuyo autor de vista fue[ un] Moro llamado Haben Hamin natural de Granada... Traduzida en Castellano por Gine[s Pe]rez. Y Corregida y emendada en esta ultima impresion.

Description: first 2 leaves defective at fore-edge with loss of letters and 2 words to title, 3 letters only to recto 2nd leaf, fragment missing from upper fore-edge of terminal leaf, lower portion turned in and nearly torn off, but no loss, pp. 570, [5], 12mo, early 19th-century vellum, black lettering piece on spine, vellum toned, label a bit rubbed, signed by Henry Francis Cary (H.F. Cary) on the title-page and the front fly-leaf;

Publication Details: Valencia: Printed by [Pedro] Patricio for Iusepe Ferrer, 1604

Notes: An early, the second Valencia edition, of the first popular novel. The book is considered the first Spanish historical novel and the last important collection of Moorish border ballads, the latter punctuating the book's narrative. Ginés Pérez de Hita, (born 1544, Mula, Murcia, Spain—died 1619), Spanish writer, author of Historia de los vandos de los Zegríes y Abencerrages (1595–1619), usually referred to as Guerras civiles de Granada. Pérez de Hita fought in the suppression of the revolt of the Moors in the Alpujarras mountains (1568–71), an event that is reflected in the second pa...moreAn early, the second Valencia edition, of the first popular novel. The book is considered the first Spanish historical novel and the last important collection of Moorish border ballads, the latter punctuating the book's narrative. Ginés Pérez de Hita, (born 1544, Mula, Murcia, Spain—died 1619), Spanish writer, author of Historia de los vandos de los Zegríes y Abencerrages (1595–1619), usually referred to as Guerras civiles de Granada. Pérez de Hita fought in the suppression of the revolt of the Moors in the Alpujarras mountains (1568–71), an event that is reflected in the second part of his Guerras. The first part deals with Moorish life in Granada before the Christian conquest of that city in 1492. The first part's portrait of the chivalrous Moorish family of the Abencerrages established the stereotype of the romantic Moor in European literature, a type imitated in Madeleine de Scudéry's Almahide (1660), Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette's Zaÿde (1670), François de Chateaubriand's Aventures du dernier Abencérage (1826), and Washington Irving's Conquest of Granada (1829). HIDE

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Subject: Literature

Published Date: 1604

Stock Number: 64232

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