THE CLASSICAL TRADITION IN MEDIEVAL CATALAN, 1300

This book offers the first comprehensive study of the reception of the classical tradition inmedieval Catalan letters, a multilingua l process involving not only the Latin and Catalanlanguages, but also neighbouring vernaculars like Aragonese, Castilian, French, an d Italian.The authors survey the development of classical literacy from the twelfth-century Aragoneseroyal courts until the arrival of the printing press and the dissemination of Italian Humanism.