The turning point of Spanish literature

During this period, Spain expelled the Moors and completed the recovery movement. The marriage of Queen Isabel of Castilla and Ferdinand of Aragon marked that Spain became a unified autocratic monarchy. It expanded abroad, conquered Italy and North Africa by force, established inquisition at home, and brutally persecuted pagans. The biggest feature of literature is that the influence of Italy dominates and humanism begins to take root. Another feature is the formation of court literature, which changed the dominant position of priests in the field of literature. Its main achievement is Francisco? Under the influence of Italian poetry, the imperialists (1373 ~ 1408) wrote The Proverbs of Seven Virtues, which initiated Dante's allegorical poetry school. Juan? Alfonso? De? 1445, Bai Na's Song Collection and Sturny's Song Collection collected a large number of excellent court poems of Castilla and Aragon from the second half of the 4th century to the first half of the 5th century.

The outstanding poets in this period are Juan who is famous for The Coronation of the Marquis of Santilana and The Labyrinth of Destiny. De? Mena (141~1456), the Marquis of Santilana (1398 ~ 1458) who is famous for his satirical poems, and Jorge? Manrique (1440 ~ 1479).

Folk lyric poetry "ballad" began to be popular in the15th century. This kind of poetry evolved from the most vivid and poetic fragments in ancient epics, with simple language and rich flavor of life.

Juan Rodriguez Delpas Delong (1395? ~ 1452' s autobiographical novel Slave Without Love and Diego de San Pedro's epistolary novel Prison of Love. Garci Rodrí guez del Montabo's famous knight novel Amadeus de Gaura was also published in this period.

In prose, for the first time, popular oral works containing a large number of aphorisms and proverbs appeared, and the representative works were the Archbishop of Tarabella Alfonso? Martinez. De? Toledo (1398? ~ 1470? ) The Whip, subtitled Criticism of Secular Love, vividly describes the customs of Spanish society with concise language and humorous brushwork. This satirical prose became the pioneer of later vagrant novels, and the famous dialogue novel Celestina was written in imitation of this book.

/kloc-In the 6th century, Spain became a powerful kingdom that ruled Europe and America. Encouraged by the kingship, domestic capitalist industry and commerce once flourished, and at the same time, it began to transition to the Renaissance in culture. A group of humanists founded schools, criticized religious prejudice and imitated the literature of ancient Greece, Rome and Italy. Poet Juan? Boscain Amogaville ( 1493？ ~ 1542) and garcilaso de la Vega (1503 ~1536) began to use the new rhythm and style of Italian poetry. While imitating Italian poetry, the latter kept the fine tradition of Spanish poetry and created Spanish sentimental poems. His works influenced later poets such as Gutierrez Desedina (15 14 ~ 1554) and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1503 ~ 1575), but they were also influenced by Christopher. ~ 1550).

Prose in this period shows two tendencies: one is to naturally express the thoughts of the times, and the other is to simply pursue formal beauty. The representative of the former tendency is Juan de Valdes (1500? ~ 1545) and Alfonso de Valdé s (1490 ~ 1532). The tramp novel Little Lazarus on the Soames River (1554) in this period reflects the spirit of the times more deeply. This work exposes the decay of Spanish society and creates a humorous tramp image that has never been seen in the history of European literature. Later matteo aleman (1547 ~ 16 14) wrote about guzman? De? The Life of Alfara Che, a two-volume book, made this kind of works very popular.