The Prison of Love: Romance, Translation, and the Book in the Sixteenth Century

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The Spanish romance Carcel de amor blossomed into a transnational and multilingual phenomenon that captivated audiences throughout Europe at a time when literacy was expanding and print production was changing the nature of reading, writing, and of literature itself. In The Prison of Love, Emily Francomano offers the first comparative study of this sixteenth-century work as a transcultural, humanist fiction. Blending literary analysis and book history, Francomano provides us with the richly textured history of the translations, material books, and artefacts that make this tale of love, letters, and courtly intrigue an invaluable prism through which the multifaceted world of sixteenth-century literary and book cultures are refracted. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction: A book that could not be read in peace Part I: Authors, Translators, Networks Chapter One: Cárcel de Amor, an Accessus ad Auctores Chapter Two: Translating Authorship Chapter Three: “Easie Languages”: The Free and Faithful Translation of The Prison of Love Part II: Materialities Chapter Four: Textual Material: Allegory and Material Epistolarity in The Prison of Love Chapter Five: Prisons in Print: The Material Books Chapter Six: Visual Rhetoric: Reading Printed Images in The Prison of Love,1493 to 1546 Part III: French Remediations Chapter Seven: La Prison d’Amours Illuminated Chapter Eight: From Text to Textile: L’Histoire de Lérian et Lauréolle Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Studies in Book and Print Culture