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MONTEMAYOR (or MONTEMOR), JORGE (1520?-156x)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 766 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MONTEMAYOR (or MONTEMOR), JORGE (1520?-156x) , Spanish novelist and poet, of Portuguese descent, was born about 1520 at Montemor o Velho (near Coimbra), whence he derived his name, the Spanish form of which is Montemayor. He seems to have studied music in his youth, and to have gone to Spain in 1543 as chorister in the suite of the Portuguese Infanta Maria, first wife of Philip II. In 1552 he went back to Portugal in the suite of the Infanta Juana, wife of D. Joao, and on the death of this prince in 1554 returned to Spain. He is said to have served in the army, to have accompanied Philip II. to England in 1555, and to have travelled in Italy and the Low Countries; but it is certain that his poetical works were published at Antwerp in 1554, and again in 1558. His reputation is based on a
prose
 
work
 , the
Diana
 , a
pastoral
  romance published about 1559. Shortly afterwards Montemayor was killed in Piedmont, apparently in a love affair; a
late
  edition of the
Diana
  gives the exact date of his death as the 26th of
February
  1561. The Diana is generally stated to have been printed at Valencia in 1542; but, as the
Canto
  de Orfeo refers to the widowhood of the Infanta Juana in 1554, the book must be of later date. It is important as the first
pastoral
  novel published in Spain; as the starting-point of a universal literary fashion; and as the indirect source, through the
translation
  included in
Googe
 's Eglogs, epytaphes and sonnets (1563), of an episode in the Two Gentlemen of Verona. Though Portuguese was Montemayor's native language, he only used it for two songs and a short
prose
  passage in the
sixth
  book of the Diana. His mastery of Spanish is amazing, and even Cervantes, who judges the verses in the Diana with unaccustomed severity, recognizes the remarkable merit of Montemayor's prose style. That he pleased his own generation is proved by the seventeen editions and two continuations of the Diana published in the '16th century, by parodies, imitations and renderings in French and English.


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