Jorge de Montemayor

Jorge de Montemayor (or Montemor) (1520? - February 26, 1561), Spanish novelist and poet, of Portuguese descent, was born at Montemor o Velho (near Coimbra), whence he derived his name, the Spanish form of which is Montemayor.

Bibliography

G Schönherr, Jorge de Montemayor, sein Leben und sein Schafroman (Halle, 1886); Domingo García Péres, Catálogo razonado biográfico y bibliográfico de los autores portugueses que escribieron en castellano (Madrid, 1890); Hugo Albert Rennert, The Spanish Pastoral Novel (Baltimore, 1892); J Fitzmaurice-Kelly, "The Bibliography of the Diana" in the Revue hispanique (1895); R Tobler, "Shakespeare's Sommernachtstraum und Montemayor's Diana" in the Jahrbuch Der deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (1898); Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, Origenes de la novela (Madrid, 1905).

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