Bernat Metge (Catalan pronunciation:[bəɾˈnadˈmedʒə]; (c. 1350 – 1410) was a Catalan writer and humanist, best known as the author of Lo Somni, which he wrote from prison (c. 1398), in which Metge discusses the immortality of the soul.[1]
He had a profound impact on the Catalan letters and was a catalyst for Italian letters to reach the Iberian Peninsula.[1]
Works
Llibre de Fortuna e Prudència (1381)
Ovidi enamorat
Valter e Griselda (1388)
Apologia (1395)
Lo somni (1399)
Notes
^ a b cSarton, George (1948). Introduction to the history of science. Carnegie institution of Washington publicationno. 376-. Vol. 3. Baltimore. hdl:2027/umn.31951d00027255b.
^Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (n.d.); Molla (n.d.)
^Gilabert 1993: 1083.
References
Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (n.d.). "Bernat Metge [Biografia]". Autors i autores (in Catalan). Barcelona: AELC. Retrieved 2009-09-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
Gilabert, Joan (1993). "Bernat Metge". In Germán Bleiberg; Maureen Ihrie; Janet Pérez (eds.). Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula: volume 2, L-Z. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing. pp. 1082–1083. ISBN 0-313-28732-5. OCLC 20993644.
Molla, Guillem (n.d.). "Bernat Metge [English biography]". Autors i autores. Barcelona: AELC. Retrieved 2009-09-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: year (link)