“Qui de polp paria que fossen”. A Note on Ovid’s Reception in "Curial e Güelfa"
Abstract
In the context of the reception of Classical authors in the XVth century, the analysis of a new Ovidian source is proposed for a passage of the north-African episode of the Catalan chivalric novel Curial e Güelfa. We suggest the anonymous author reuses the myth of Hermaphroditus from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and we analyse the treatment of the Ovidian hypotext and its fitting in a new narrative context. Besides, we study the possibility of using intermediate sources, such as Boccaccian Genealogia, and we offer a comparative analysis of Juan de Mena’s version of Hermaphroditus’ myth. In doing so, we aim to contextualize the Catalan novel in the cultural atmosphere of this period and, more exactly, in the reception of Ovidian texts in the Hispanic circles connected to Italian humanism. The analysis confirms the relevance of Classical authors as Ovid in the Anonymous’ writing.
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