by Jaume Roig · Orbis · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475307886
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«Espill o Llibre de les Dones» is the satirical verse work by Jaume Roig, published by Orbis in hardcover and in Catalan.
A verse work composed in noves rimades, the only known work by Jaume Roig. Through a centenarian narrator, it reviews with moralizing intent the relations between men and women, denounces female deceptions, and portrays with irony the daily life of 15th-century Valencia.
This edition belongs to the collection Història de la Literatura Catalana, number 33.
For readers interested in medieval Catalan literature and in 15th-century satire of customs.
Jaume Roig was a doctor in the city of València and the author of Espill (Mirror), a work of medieval literature in the Valencian/Catalan language. Together with Ausiàs March, and Isabel de Villena, Jaume Roig is one of the three writers chosen by Henry W. Longfellow to summarise the literature of the 15th century in the Catalan language.
