PART III
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TIRANT LO BLANCH AND THE SOURCES: GUY OF WARWICK, LIFE OF ROGER DE FLOR IN MUNTANER'S CHRONICA, AND LULL'S LIBRE DEL ORDE D'CAUAYLERIA.
CHAPTER I
WILLIAM OF WARWICK STANDS FOR THE MATURE GUY OF WARWICK
Towards the end of his book, the author of Tirant
lo Blanch annexed to the life of his hero, with extensive
modifications however, the latter part of the career of
the famous Catalan hero, Roger de Flor, whose life from
childhood to death is related in Muntaner's Chronica.
It is not so strange, then, that those who have read
Tirant lo Blanch and are acquainted with the life of
Roger de Flor should designate Martorell's work as a
kind of historical novel.
In his excellent Estudio crítico de Tirant lo Blanch, Givanel Mas exclaims:
Cuán acertado estuvo Amador de los Ríos al
indicar que la principal fuente del libro de
caballerías catalán, fueron las proezas de aquel
caudillo [Roger de Flor] cuyas hazañas llenan
bastantes páginas de la Crónica de Muntaner.[1]
In Denk's Geschichte der altcatalanischen Litteratur we
read the following statement:
Jeder Kenner der catalanischen Geschichte
sieht in Tirant nichts als die novellistisch behandelte
Gestalt des kühnen Abenteurers Roger
- ↑ Op. cit., p. 117.
