![]() ![]() ![]() They are robust in body with stout, passionate hearts and great strength. … Know ye that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to the Earthly Paradise, and inhabited by women without a single man among them, for they live almost in the manner of Amazons. Now I wish you to learn of one of the strangest matters that has ever been found in writing or in the memory of mankind. The first volume thrown into the fire is the sequel to “Amadis,” “Las Sergas de Esplandián,” famous for its fantastical description of a tribe of ferocious women found on a certain island in The Indies: When Don Quixote’s relations stage an inquisitorial intervention to cure him of his fiction-infused insanity, they burn the evil books. ![]() ![]() These novels were addictive, as illustrated by Cervantes’ hero Don Quixote with his chivalric-inspired madness. In the 16th century, as books became more accessible, the 14th century tale of “Amadis of Gaul,” modified and popularized by Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo, found new readership in Spain. The epics of Charlemagne and the tales of Arthur and his Knights of the Roundtable gave birth to successive versions, tweaked by new authors to go with the times. ![]()
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