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The Book of Good Love

work by Ruiz
Also known as: “Libro de buen amor”

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discussed in biography

  • In Juan Ruiz

    …amor (1330; expanded in 1343; The Book of Good Love) is perhaps the most important long poem in the literature of medieval Spain.

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place in Spanish literature

  • Spain
    In Spain: Castilian institutions, society, and culture

    …satirical look at love; his Libro de buen amor (1330; expanded 1343; Book of Good Love) intersperses ribald and comic poems of love with beautiful hymns in praise of the Virgin Mary. The history of this period was recorded in a succession of royal chronicles. Pedro López de Ayala (died…

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  • St. Luke the Evangelist
    In Spanish literature: The 14th century

    …individual early poet, composed the Libro de buen amor (1330, expanded 1343; “Book of Good Love”), which combined disparate elements—Ovid, Aesop, the Roman Catholic liturgy, and the 12th-century Latin Pamphilus de amore, an anonymous elegiac comedy. The result mingled eroticism with devotion and invited readers to interpret often-equivocal teachings. Ruiz’s…

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