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A new conception of nobility, modelled on the Italian Renaissance courts and their concept of the perfect courtier, was beginning to evolve through French literature. Throughout the 17th century this new concept transformed the image of the rude noble into an ideal of honnête homme ("the upright man") or the bel esprit ("beautiful spirit ...
L'Astrée is a pastoral novel [1] by Honoré d'Urfé, published between 1607 and 1627.. Possibly the single most influential work of 17th-century French literature, L'Astrée has been called the "novel of novels", partly for its immense length (six parts, forty stories, sixty books in 5,399 pages) but also for the success it had throughout Europe: it was translated into a great number of ...
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For Cervantes and the readers of his day, Don Quixote was a one-volume book published in 1605, divided internally into four parts, not the first part of a two-part set. The mention in the 1605 book of further adventures yet to be told was totally conventional, did not indicate any authorial plans for a continuation, and was not taken seriously by the book's first readers.
Although the European prominence of French literature was eclipsed in part by vernacular literature in Italy in the 14th century, literature in France in the 16th century underwent a major creative evolution, and through the political and artistic programs of the Ancien Régime, French literature came to dominate European letters in the 17th ...
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni (17th century) Silk by Alessandro Baricco (1860s) The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco (19th century) La confesión del embajador by Juan Martín Salamanca (17th century, Spanish ambassador in Duchy of Savoy)
The development into the 17th century gives the Amadis of Gaul a central position [p. 114-16] and leads to Cervantes Don Quixote—which is rather a critic of "romances" than a romance itself. The following long passage gives Huet's picture of the intellectual network behind the rise of the modern novel—and of the traditions which now met:
Years of the 17th century in literature ... 17th-century French literature (9 C, ... 17th-century Spanish literature (2 C) T.