Bernat Metge (; ( 1350 – 1410) was a
Catalan
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writer and humanist, best known as the author of ''
Lo Somni
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'', which he wrote from prison (c. 1398), in which Metge discusses the immortality of the soul.
He was a courtier and Secretary for
Joan I of Aragon, queen Na Violante, and following some troubles, once more served
Martin the Humane of Aragon from 1403 to 1410.
His influences included the literature of
Provence
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,
Petrarch
Francesco Petrarca (; 20 July 1304 – 18/19 July 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch (), was a scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists.
Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited ...
, and ''
De vetula'', wrongly attributed to
Ovid
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and now sometimes claimed for
Richard de Fournival
Richard de Fournival or Richart de Fornival (1201 – ?1260) was a medieval philosopher and trouvère perhaps best known for the '' Bestiaire d'amour'' ("The Bestiary of Love").
Life
Richard de Fournival was born in Amiens on October 10, 1201. ...
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He had a profound impact on the Catalan letters and was a catalyst for Italian letters to reach the Iberian Peninsula.
Works
*''Llibre de Fortuna e Prudència'' (1381)
*''Ovidi enamorat''
*''Valter e Griselda'' (1388)
*''Apologia'' (1395)
*''Lo somni'' (1399)
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1340s births
1413 deaths
Writers from Catalonia
Medieval Catalan-language writers
Renaissance humanists
Catalan-language poets
14th-century Spanish poets
People from Barcelona
14th-century Spanish writers
14th-century Catalan people