by Bernat Metge · Orbis · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475308777
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«Valter e Griselda ; Lo Somni» is the volume of medieval Catalan literature by Bernat Metge, published by Orbis in hardcover (137 pages, in Catalan).
The volume contains Bernat Metge's version of Petrarch's epistle with the tale of Valter and Griselda and an annotated selection from Lo Somni. Written around 1399, Lo Somni narrates a dream in which King Joan I appears to him, prompting a reflection on death and the soul; in it, the arrival of humanism in the Crown of Aragon is evident.
The volume belongs to the collection History of Catalan Literature, the result of a collaboration between Edicions 62 and Orbis.
For readers interested in medieval Catalan literature and the origins of humanism in the Crown of Aragon.
Bernat Metge (Catalan pronunciation: [bəɾˈnad ˈmedʒə]; was a Catalan writer and humanist, best known as the author of The Dream of Bernat Metge, which he wrote from prison, in which Metge discusses the immortality of the soul.
