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	Amadis of Gaul - Encyclopedia.com
		Amadis de Gaule, famous prose romance of chivalry, first composed in Spain or Portugal and probably based on French sources.
		Don Quixote, in describing Amadis of Gaul, states that he was slow to anger and quick to lay aside his wrath.
		From Amadis of Gaul, she takes the story of an island palace that magically tests the lovers who attempt to enter it.
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	Amadis of Gaul - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Amadis of Gaul, title of a medieval romance of chivalry, written in prose and relating the adventures of a legendary hero of the same name.
		Amadis of Gaul gained enormous popularity in the 16th century after its publication by Garcia Ordóñez de Montalvo.
		Gaul (Latin Gallia), ancient Roman designation of that portion of western Europe which is substantially identical with France, although extending...
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	Amadis de Gaula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amadís de Gaula (English, Amadis of Gaul) is a landmark work among the knight-errantry tales which were in vogue in 16th century Spain, and formed the earliest reading of many Renaissance and Baroque writers.
		Called also "Amadís sin Tiempo" (Amadis without Time) by his mother (in allusion to the fact that being conceived outside marriage she would have to abandon him and he would probably die), he is the most representative Iberian hero of chivalric Romance.
		Amadís of Gaul is frequently referenced in the satirical classic Don Quixote, written by Miguel de Cervantes in the early 17th century.
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	Amadis de Gaula Totally Explained
		Amadis de Gaula (original Portuguese version) (English: Amadis of Gaul, Spanish: Amadís de Gaula) is a landmark work among the knight-errantry tales which were in vogue in 16th century Iberian Peninsula, and formed the earliest reading of many Renaissance and Baroque writers.
		The language is characterized by a certain "Latinizing" influence in its syntax, especially the tendency to place the verb at the end of the sentence; as well as other such details, such as the use of the present participle, which bring Amadís into line with the allegorical style of the 15th century.
		Amadís of Gaul is frequently referenced in the satirical classic Don Quixote, written by Miguel de Cervantes in the early 17th century.
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	Informat.io on Amadis Of Gaul
		Amadis of Gaul is frequently referenced in the satirical classic Don Quixote, written by Miguel de Cervantes in the early 17th century.
		Amadis of Gaul's popularity was such that in the decades following its publication, dozens of sequels of sometimes minor quality were published in Spanish, Italian and German, together with a number of other imitative works.
		In Germany and England, Amadis was known cheifly through its French translations, and in England the cycle was generally referred to by its French title "Amadis de Gaule".
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	Amadis of Gaul: by Garcia Ordóñez de Montalvo - Sidebar - ninemsn Encarta
		Amadis of Gaul: by Garcia Ordóñez de Montalvo - Sidebar - ninemsn Encarta
		In this episode, Amadis, the greatest knight in the world, has done a favour for a dwarf, who leads him to the castle of the wicked magician Arcalaus.
		This translation was made in the 19th century by the English Romantic poet Robert Southey, who maintained the anachronistic language of the story.
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		Amadis of Gaul: A Novel of Chivalry of the 14th...
		Amadis of Gaul is, in one word, classic.
		The first great bestseller of the age of printing, Amadis of Gaul was translated into dozens of languages and spawned sequels and imitators over the centuries.
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	Legends and Romances of Spain: IV. The Sequels to "Amadis de Gaul" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Amadis of Greece, indeed, approaches the sublime of imaginative excess and fictional unreason, and in its extravagant pages we are confronted with such a maze of marvel that to provide an intelligent account of it is a task of no little difficulty.
		It chanced that at this time Amadis of Gaul, who was evidently not yet too old for adventurous pursuits, encountered the Queen of Saba, who was everywhere searching for a champion to defend her against her husband's false charges of conjugal infidelity.
		As his fleet sailed with all speed from Trebizond, it encountered that of Amadis of Gaul, who was hastening to the relief of that city, and had evidently not been retarded in his passage of the Dardanelles by any considerations of international law.
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	Amadis of Gaul
		However, it seems that in fact it was Juan de Lobeira, and not the troubadour Vasco de Lobeira, and that rather than originating with him it was the revision of an earlier work from the beginning of the 14th century.
		After an introduction in which it is claimed that the text was found in a buried chest (the famous motif of the false document), the story narrates the star-crossed love of King Perión of Gaul and Elisena of England, resulting in the secret birth of Amadís.
		Called also Amadís sin Tiempo (Amadis without Time) by his mother (in allusion to the fact that being conceived outside marriage she would have to abandon him and he would probably die), he is the most representative hero of the Cavalier novel genre.
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	From Amadis of Gaul - Sidebar - MSN Encarta
		The following excerpt from the book contains all the elements of the romance of chivalry that Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes was later to ridicule in Don Quixote: brave knights, strange enchantments, sorcerers, and chivalric devotion.
		In this episode, Amadis, the greatest knight in the world, has done a favor for a dwarf, who leads him to the castle of the wicked magician Arcalaus.
		This translation was done in the 19th century by the English romantic Robert Southey, who maintained the anachronistic language of the story.
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	Gaul
		The Gaul in Italy was called Cisalpine Gaul [Cisalpine, from Lat.=on this side the Alps], as opposed to Transalpine Gaul; Cisalpine Gaul was divided into Cispadane Gaul [on this side the Po] and Transpadane Gaul.
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		Gaul: Roman Rule - Roman Rule By 121 B.C., Rome had acquired S Transalpine Gaul, and by the time of Julius Caesar it...
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		Amadis of Gaul: A Novel of Chivalry of the 14th Century Presumably First Written in Spanish (Studies in Romance Languages (Lexington, Ky.), 11.) (Paperback)
		The first great bestseller of the age of printing, Amadis of Gaul was translated into dozens of languages and spawned sequels and imitators over the centuries.
		HERE BEGINS THE FIRST BOOK of the courageous and virtuous knight Amadis, son of King Perion of Gaul and of Queen Elisena, which was corrected and emended by the honorable and virtuous gentleman Garci-Rodriguez de Montalvo, Alderman of the noble town of Medina del Campo.
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		Amadis of Gaul, a love-child of king Perion and the princess Elizena.
		Amadis de Gaul was a tall man, of a fair complexion, his aspect something between mild and austere, and had a handsome fl beard.
		Amadis of Greece, a supplemental part of Amadis of Gaul, by Feliciano de-Silva.
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	Contrasting Novel and Romance
		In the excerpts, you will read about Amadis of Gaul (also known as "the Greek") and his adventures as he tries to save the princess Olinda and his beloved Grasinda from the Roman army.
		On the morrow Grasinda with four damsels heard mass in the tent, the three knights being armed mounted, and Grasinda mounted her palfrey, she and her palfrey being arrayed in cloth of silk and gold, with pearls and jewels, that the greatest empress in the world could not have been more richly adorned.
		The Greek knight passed on, carrying the lance of Salustanquidio hanging in his shield and in the sleeve of his mail, so that all thought he was wounded, but it was not so.
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		The story of his incredible feats of arms, in which he is never defeated, was interwoven with that of his love for Oriana, daughter of Lisuarte, king of England.
		In the 16th century a number of sequels and feeble imitations appeared, the fashion being given its deathblow by parody early in the 17th century in Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote (though Cervantes held the original in high esteem).
		The first English adaptation of the Amadis appeared in 1567; one of the best English translations is an abridged version by the poet Robert Southey, first published in 1803.
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	The SF Site Featured Review: Amadis of Gaul. Books I and II
		A number of characters in James Branch Cabell's Biography of Manuel, quite a lengthy series itself, bear names from Amadis of Gaul, Lisuarte in Jurgen and the main character, Perion (Amadis' father in the original) in Domnei.
		There is also evidence from her journals that Mary Shelley was reading Robert Southey's 1803 translation of Amadis of Gaul at the time she began to write Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus.
		Love-child of King Perion of Gaul and the lovely Elisena, Amadis is left in a basket to float downriver lest his mother be dishonoured.
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	Amadis de Gaul (Nuttall Encyclopædia)
		/ · 1907 Nuttall Encyclopædia of General Knowledge · A · Amadis de Gaul
		Am`adis de Gaul), a celebrated romance in prose, written partly in Spanish and partly in French by different romancers of the 15th century; the first four books were regarded by Cervantes as a masterpiece.
		The hero of the book, Amadis, surnamed the Knight of the Lion, stands for a type of a constant and deferential lover, as well as a model knight-errant, of whom Don Quixote is the caricature.
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	Gaul - Athena Review 1,4: Caesar's Campaigns in Gaul
		Gaul (gôl) (Formerly Gal·li·a (gal ' e-ä)) An ancient region of western Europe south and west of the Rhine River, west of the Alps, and north of.
		Siege of Alesia Gaul, 52 BC Wargames wargame.
		The rest of Gaul, however, remained on a pre-state level, and were among those Caesar's campaigns in Gaul began in 58 BC, when the Helvetii and several
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	Iberian Chivalric Liturature
		The great Iberian fantasy series, the Amadis series and the Palmerin series, along with their imitators, however, date their fame, though not their origin, to the sixteenth century and the early seventeenth century.
		Amadis of Gaul was translated into Castilian by Garcia Ordon~ez de Montalvo in the early sixteenth century, and printed not long after.
		Like the Amadis series, marvels and monsters are thrown at nearly invulnerable knights, who fall head over heels in love with unattainable damsels of noble birth, and seek by their feats to attrat the notice of their ladies.
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	Amadis of Gaul — Infoplease.com
		Amadis of Gaul - Amadis of Gaul The hero of a romance in prose of the same title, originally written in Portuguese...
		Governess of Brittany, rescued by Amadis of Gaul from the hands of Balan,...
		Oriana - Oriana The beloved of Amadis of Gaul, who called himself Beltenebros when he retired to the Poor...
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	FreisslerSoft Books Gaul
		The Royal Patronage of Liturgy in Frankish Gaul to the Death of Charles the Bald, 877
		The Visigoths in Gaul and Spain A.D. 418-711: A Bibliography
		La campagne áa l'âepoque romaine dans le centre de la Gaule : villas, vici et sanctuaires dans la Citâe de Bituriges Cubi = Rural settlement in Central Gaul in the Roman period : villas, vici and sanctuaries in the civitas of the Bituriges Cubi
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	"At length they reached the rock-which was called the Poor Block" - APPLETON, HONOR C. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Original Watercolor Drawing for Amadis of Gaul: A Story of Chivalry APPLETON, Honor C. "At length they reached the rock-which was called the Poor Block".
		Original watercolor drawing for Amadis of Gaul: A Story of Chivalry.
		Depicts the old hermit and Amadis on a raft fighting the wild waves of the ocean.
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	Gaul - Siege of Alesia Gaul, 52 BC Wargame War Game
		Love-child of King Perion of Gaul and the lovely Elisena, Amadis is left in a Surprisingly, very little seems to have been culled from Amadis of Gaul by
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		To undertake these difficult tasks, you get ten full legions and almost every Gaul in Gaul.
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	AllRefer.com - Amadis of Gaul (Spanish And Portuguese Literature) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Amadis of Gaul (Spanish And Portuguese Literature) - Encyclopedia
		Amadis de Gaule[AmAdEs´ du gOl] Pronunciation Key, famous prose romance of chivalry, first composed in Spain or Portugal and probably based on French sources.
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	Amadis of Gaul
		The story became the subject of a lyric tragedy by Philippe Quinault (1684), with music by Lully, and it inspired the opera
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	Amadigi di Gaula Amadis of Gaul , by Nicola Francesco Haym (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Amadigi di Gaula Amadis of Gaul, by Nicola Francesco Haym
		Amadis faints and falls opprest with Grief, I’ll quickly rouse him from his Sleep; Fly Furies, fly without Delay, [She makes her Charms. And hither Oriana bring, And of their Love, th’ only Reward that be Sorrow and Rigour, Hatred and Disdain.
		Oriana adores this Amadis, and me she slights: Melissa indeed doth promise me To comfort my tormented Mind, But now too late I see, Oh Gods, That all her Pow’r can ne’er redress my Grief.
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