Count Lucanor: A Literary Exploration
Count Lucanor: Book Patronio or Lucanor Count:
These apologists, ie fictional stories with didactic intent that end with a moral. This work consists of three parts:
-Stock enxiemplos manifested in teaching and moral intent.
-Collection of 100 proverbs.
“Treaty on the salvation of Don Juan Manuel wrote alma.Lo
Trotaconventos: Female Character of the Book of Good Love is a matchmaker who runs the convent to convent carrying messages of love knights and minstrels to religiosas.es a work of Mester de Clerecía the XIV century
Mester of Clergy: The S. XIII was born a new stream called mester of clergy, consisting of clerics and intellectuals. It featured track is written in bulkhead using the paired, their works were composed to be recited and were written in Latin, but for reasons of communication came to be written in the vernacular. The most important works are classified in two centuries:
> S. XIII: – Stock: Book of Apollonius, Alexander’s book, poems of Fernán González.
– Gonzalo de Berceo: Nstra.Sñra miracles, life of S. Millan de Silos Snt.Domingo life, Snta.Oria life.
> S. XIV – Archpriest of Hita: Book of Good Love.
– López de Ayala:
– Sem Carrion Ton: proverbs
GONZALO DE BERCEO
Mester most important poet of the thirteenth century clergyman, poet and first romance.
Its open-religious and are classified as:
– Life of Saint Snt.Domingo life of Silos.
– Doctrinal Works: composed on the basis of his priestly ordination.
– Marian Works: count the joys of the Virgin.
La Celestina: The author is Fernando de Rojas, was born in La Puebla de Montalbán (Toledo) in 1476 into a family of Jewish convicts. He studied law and graduated from high school, practiced law in Talavera de la Reina. He died in 1540.
ARGUMENT:
La Celestina account of the affair between Calisto and Melibea. Melibea Calisto falls in love but it refuses. Sempronius, Calisto’s servant, tells her to go to see Celestina, a pimp who manages to fall in love with Calisto Melibea.
In gratitude, Calisto gives a gold chain to Celestina, who died at the hands of the servants of Calisto for not wanting to share.
Calisto a visit to Melibea night falls down the stairs and dies. Melibea disconsolate she tells her father, Pleberio, then commits suicide. The play ends with Pleberio crying over the death of his daughter.CHARACTERS:
The Lords: – Callisto: is rich in heritage and lives only for your interest. In the 1st act appears as a lover but when it gets its purpose is shown as a capricious .- Melibea: society is dominated by its initial refusal shows the concept of honor. At first it appears as a naive person and finally as a woman committed and secure .- Pleberio: Melibea father and is sympathetic to her. At the end mourns his death.
– Alisa: Melibea mother, his interest is to please her husband and is proud of its status. La Celestina is the central character of the work. It is he who unites the characters, practice many trades, is meticulous and plan the steps to be taken, the greed leads to death. The servants: they reflect the crisis of an aristocratic society.
– Sempronius: is greedy and materialistic, it becomes an accomplice to the bawd .- Parmeno: at first a faithful servant is trying to warn Calisto of Celestina’s dealings .- Elicia and Areusa: Celestina pupils. Elicia takes advantage of its beauty and Melibea and Areusa compared with Lucrecia .-: .- Centurio Melibea maid: a pimp, which is close to the grotesque.
THEMES:
The love is the main theme of the work. It manifests itself as love at first cuts that gives way to carnal.
The death is linked to the theme of love. The transience of life: references abound in the work of the transience of pleasure and life.