From Spectacularity to Oblivion: The Liturgical Celebration in Florisando (1510) and Don Florisandro (1550)

Abstract

In this research, framed within the development of a doctoral thesis on the representation of thought and religious politics in chivalric books published between the reigns of the Catholic Monarchs and Charles V, the liturgical celebrations that culminate in the performance of processions invoking the divinity, represented in "Florisando" (1510), are studied. Subsequently, a comparative analysis is conducted between the passages of the Castilian work and its Italian translation, "Don Florisandro" of 1550. The study demonstrates the author's profound knowledge of liturgy and how these celebrations were common at the time of the work's writing. Similarly, the comparison between the two works, Castilian and Italian, provides interesting data on Mambrino Roseo's approach in his translations of the Amadisian cycle.