: Tirant lo Blanch; a study of its authorship principal sources and historical setting by Vaeth Joseph Anthony - Martorell Joanot -1468. Tirant lo Blanch

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INTRODUCTION 1

William of Warwick a noble and valiant English knight.--He makes a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, returns, and lives as a hermit near Warwick.--Moorish invasion of England.--William of Warwick becomes the hermit-king and the commander of the English forces.--Defeat and annihilation of the Moors.--He gives back to the former king the royal insignia, and retires to a new hermitage.--The King of England announces an assembly of the General Court in London.--Meeting of Tirant lo Blanch and the hermit, William of Warwick, at the hermitage.--The marriage of the king and the festivities of the General Court.--On his way back to Brittany Tirant visits the hermit.--The principal events that took place near and in London.--Tirant proclaimed the best knight.--His exploits: he vanquishes two champions of the field, also the Lord of Viles Hermes; without arms he kills a fierce mastiff; he vanquishes the kings of Friesland and of Poland, and the dukes of Burgundy and of Bavaria; his prospective combat with Kirielayson de Muntalba; he defeats Thomas de Muntalba; combat with the Knight Villa Formosa.--Narration concerning the Order of the Garter.--Tirant takes leave of the hermit and returns to Brittany.

Tirant is received with great honors in the city of Nantes. He learns that the knights of Rhodes are besieged by the Moors and are in a desperate plight.--On a large ship heavily laden with provisions he, accompanied by Philip, the youngest son of the King of France, sets sail for Rhodes.--Makes landing at Lisbon.--Voyage resumed.--Ship attacked by Moorish vessels but finally reaches Sicily.--Philip becomes a suitor for the hand of the Sicilian princess, Ricomana.--The king of Sicily accompanies Tirant and the ship succeeds in reaching the castle of Rhodes.--The Moors raise the siege.--Tirant, with his royal companions, goes to Jerusalem and then to Alexandria, where he ransoms many Christian captives.--Philip marries Ricomana.

Tirant, in a galley of his own, joins the combined fleet of the Christians.--Attack on the city of Tripoli in Syria fails.--Quarrel between Tirant and Ricart lo Venturos for the honor of being the last to board the ship.--The Turkish coast is plundered and devastated and fleet sails for Tunis.--In the attack on that city Tirant falls in a ditch and is rescued by Ricart.--Tunis is captured.--Fleet sailed along coast of Barbary and finally disbanded at Marseilles.--Tirant visits his parents and then, at the request of Philip, returns to Sicily.

At the request of the Emperor of Constantinople, Tirant sets sail for that imperial city, and immediately upon his arrival is named commander of the Emperor's forces.--He falls in love with the charming princess, Carmesina.--Opposition to Tirant.--Princess warns him against the treacherous Duke of Macedonia.--Tirant's novel way of confessing his love.--Review of the Imperial troops.--First encounter with the Turks.--The Duke defies Tirant.--Two thousand soldiers sent by the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes arrive to help Tirant.--Tirant's strategy wins another victory.--The Turks decide that Tirant must be slain.--The King of Egypt's challenge accepted by Tirant.--Quarrel between Tirant and the Duke.--Five thousand men sent by Philip, now king of Sicily, arrive to join Tirant.--Emperor and Princess visit the camp.--Great rout of the Turks.--Tirant's companion, Diaphebus, appointed Constable.--Tirant captures ships laden with provisions for the enemy.--Fleet of the Grand Caramany and the King of Sobirana India dispersed and the royal leaders captured.--Tirant obliged to remain in bed in Constantinople in order that a serious wound received in naval battle may heal.--Arrival of five thousand "franc archers."--Tirant's passionate love.--Viuda Reposada's jealousy.--Diaphebus marries Stephania.--Tirant in Carmesina's chamber.--Hippolyte and the Empress.--Tirant and Carmesina exchange vows.--Tirant embarks to return to camp.--Tirant's ship is driven by a storm to the shores of Barbary, where it is wrecked.

Tirant reaches the shore and takes refuge in a cave.--He is discovered and sent to a castle in the kingdom of Tremicen as a prisoner.--He takes up arms in defense of this kingdom, which is attacked by Scariano, the King of Tunis.--Maragdina, the daughter of the King of Tremicen, is captured by Scariano, who, in his turn, is captured by Tirant.--Maragdina, Scariano, and a multitude of Moors become Christians.--Several Moorish kings of Barbary determine to exterminate the Christians, but are forced to give up their designs.--Tirant now makes up his mind to conquer all Barbary.--The siege of Montagata.--Senyor Dagramunt and Plaer de mi Vida become the king and queen of Fez and Bugia.--Caramen, the last city to oppose the Christians, is captured.--Tirant gathers an army of 250,000 men at Constantine to reconquer all the lost territory for the Emperor of Constantinople.--Christianity is firmly established in Barbary.

Tirant's immense expedition surprises the Moorish vessels which blockade the port of Constantinople.--The Sultan and the Grand Turk sue for peace.--Tirant's visit to the Imperial Palace.--The Emperor's conditions of peace accepted by the Moors.--The betrothal of Tirant and Carmesina.--He is proclaimed Caesar of the Empire and successor to the imperial crown.--He sets out with a large army to accomplish the restoration of the empire.--This task completed, he starts back for Constantinople.--His death.--The despair and passing away of the Emperor and Carmesina.--Hippolyte becomes Emperor.

De Galba asserts that he translated the fourth part, the end of the work.--The book is not divided into four parts.--The inconsistency of the proposed seven parts explained.--Internal evidence refutes the statements of de Galba.--Perhaps he composed the last chapter.--Probably did no more than to prepare the MS. for the printer.

Tirant and Guy are victors in knightly contests.--Their love affairs.--Guy's career at Constantinople.--Comparison with Tirant's career at that imperial city.

The Emperor's attitude towards the Genoese.--Xor Miqueli.--Arrival of reinforcements.--The story of Paris and Helen.--En Fernan de Ahones.--The raising of the siege of Messina.

This episode is given a setting in the first part of the fifteenth century.--Henry VI and Richard of Beauchamp.--Sir John Stuart and the Duke of Exeter.--The author's method in composing his work.

The attempt of the Genoese to capture Rhodes.--Rhodes threatened by the Turks.--Siege of Rhodes, in 1444, forms the historical background of Tirant's enterprise.

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