"There Is No Book, No Matter How Bad It Is, That Does Not Have Something Good in It": The Circulation of the Novels by Sebastiano Erizzo and Niccolò Granucci in the Spanish Golden Age

Daniel Fernández Rodríguez

doi:10.5565/rev/anuariolopedevega.305

Daniel Fernández Rodríguez

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This paper provides a first consideration of the dissemination and impact of the novels by Sebastiano Erizzo and Niccolo Granucci in the Spanish Golden Age, focusing on two of their main works, Le sei giornate (1567) and La piacevol notte et lieto giorno (1574), respectively. The characteristics of the identified copies, some coincidences with texts by Lope and Cervantes, and the information collected on the circulation of these two works, whose focus on morality may have favoured their dissemination, lead to the suggestion that their novels had a certain influence on Spanish literature. These circumstances should encourage Hispanists to turn their eyes towards the novels of Niccolo Granucci —who may have contributed to spread novels by other novellieri— and Sebastiano Erizzo when considering the traces of the Italian novella in the Spanish Golden Age.

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Daniel Fernández Rodríguez the identified copies, some coincidences with texts by Lope and Cervantes, and the information collected on the circulation of these two works, whose focus on morality may have favoured their dissemination, lead to the suggestion that their novels had a certain influence on Spanish literature
These circumstances should encourage Hispanists to turn their eyes towards the novels of Niccolò Granucci —who may have contributed to spread novels by other novellieri— and Sebastiano Erizzo when considering the traces of the Italian novella in the Spanish Golden Age
Esta circunstancia nos invita a volver los ojos hacia las novelas de Sebastiano Erizzo y Niccolò Granucci, dos novelistas hoy muy poco leídos y recordados en España, pero a los que no habría que perder de vista a la hora de valorar la huella de la novela italiana, y para quienes debería reservarse una parcela, siquiera modesta, en la historia de la literatura del Siglo de Oro

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Daniel Fernández Rodríguez the identified copies, some coincidences with texts by Lope and Cervantes, and the information collected on the circulation of these two works, whose focus on morality may have favoured their dissemination, lead to the suggestion that their novels had a certain influence on Spanish literature.

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