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a servant, they are both imprisoned, and the king decides to judge them according to a law dictating that the person found more culpable is to be put to death, while the other is to be exiled. When the lovers, under torture, each refuse to inculpate the other, the king decides to organize a judicial debate, the cause of women to be defended by a certain Braçayda (Hortensia in other versions), and the cause of men by a certain Torrellas (Afranio in other versions). After a lengthy debate, the judges find women to be more guilty, and Mirabella is sentenced to be burnt at the stake. As the bonfire is prepared, her lover Grisel throws himself in the fire and the public stops all further action, claiming God has chosen his victim. That night, however, Mirabella throws herself in her father's courtyard to be devoured by his lions. Finally: in an act of vengeance for the death of her daughter, the queen has a false letter sent to the vain Torrellas, the "champion of men", supposedly by the hand of Braçayda, proclaiming Braçayda's interest in him and inviting him to a secret rendez-vous. At this tryst, the queen and her maidens surprise the man, bind him, gruesomely torture him all night, and finally kill him.
97:: a Spanish young lady, Gradissa, is heart-broken over the fate of Boccaccio's Lady Fiammetta (presented as a real person), and she decides to reject the advances of all men, including her noble lover Grimalte. This latter decides to search out Lady Fiammetta, and eventually discovers her. He attempts to reconcile Fiammetta and her lover Panfilo, but is unsuccessful. Fiammetta dies and Panfilo promises to retreat from the world and seek out the wilds of the forest. Grimalte returns to his love Gradissa to attempt his own reconciliation, but she convinces him to seek out Panfilo once more. Grimalte does this, finding Panfilo alone and silent in the forest, and in his turn Grimalte becomes a wild man of the woods, haunted by visions of Fiammetta in hell. 110:
The King of Scotland has a daughter, Mirabella (Isabella in other versions), whom he loves so much, that he rejects all suitors for her hand and locks her up in his palace. A young noble, Grisel (Aurelio in other versions) is, however, able to find his way to her and they fall in love. Denounced by
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is captured by angry dead lovers and, after a trial, is sentenced to death. He is, however, saved by his supporters, and in return Cupid reverses the roles of love in the sexes, making men virtuous and chaste and making women the ones imploring them for sex.
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De Flores's novel was popular in England, and had been published in English translation five times between 1556 and 1586. It was one of the sources for
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Luis F. López González, “Mirabella’s Deadly Gaze: The Force that Destabilizes the State’s Power in Grisel y Mirabella.” Viator 48.1 (2017): 145–160.
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and may have been the nephew of the noble Pedro Alvarez Osorio. In 1476, he was appointed official chronicler to the monarchs
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courtier, knight, administrator, diplomat and author, most known for two "sentimental novels":
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Novels of Juan de Flores and their european diffusion: a study in comparative literature
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by a certain "Lelio Aletiphilo"; this translation gave the work a wide dissemination.
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started writing 60 years after de Flores died, and the European popularity of his
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Three other works have been attributed to Juan de Flores with some certainty:
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The early portion of the story has similarities to a tale in Boccaccio's
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Juan de Flores is also author of an allegorical vision story,
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Spanish writer, courtier and diplomat (c. 1455 – c. 1525)
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Index

Spanish
García Álvarez de Toledo, 1st Duke of Alba
Fernando
Isabella
Miguel de Cervantes
Diego de San Pedro
Fernando de Rojas
La Celestina
Giovanni Boccaccio
Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta
Decameron
Cupid
Tristan
Isolde
Women Pleased
Jacobean
tragicomedy
John Fletcher
Maurice Scève
Lope de Vega
Spanish Renaissance
Spanish Renaissance literature
ISBN
978-0415939188
Juan de Flores
Breve tractado de Grimalte y Gradissa (1883)
Historia di Avrelio et Isabella (1548)
Categories
Spanish male writers
Spanish literature

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