A Guide to Historical Fiction
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; (3) Poetna del Cid (composed c. 1135-75), the oldest poem in Spanish. Southey also made some use of the Romancero del Cid, ancient ballads of little historical authority. The real Cid, Ruy Diaz de Bivar (b. 1030-40, d. 1099) was probably as selfish, unscrupulous, and ferocious as he was brave and patriotic ; the Cid of romance, as he is here depicted, is a more perfect hero than Amadis, Esplandian, or Palmerin. In effect, Southey's com- pilation ranks as an historical novel, though the docume...nts on which it is based purport to be history. In spite of the idealizing tendency alluded to, the recital has the strength and the dramatic energy of reality, and differs from other Spanish romances of chivalry as a hero-saga differs from an Italian opera. The career of the Cid as here related gives a unity and an order like that of epic narrative to the incidents of the wars between the Kings of Castile, Aragon, and Navarre, and the struggles with the Moors. The outstand- ing episodes are the repeated banishment of the Cid, his wars with the Moors, the capture of Valencia which he erects into a kingdom for himself, the outrage of the Cid's sons-in- law, the Infantes of Carrion, upon his daughters (who, by the way, are mythical) and the avenging thereof, with the death of the Cid and the last battle, where his dead body puts the Moors to flight, [is.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
; (3) Poetna del Cid (composed c. 1135-75), the oldest poem in Spanish. Southey also made some use of the Romancero del Cid, ancient ballads of little historical authority. The real Cid, Ruy Diaz de Bivar (b. 1030-40, d. 1099) was probably as selfish, unscrupulous, and ferocious as he was brave and patriotic ; the Cid of romance, as he is here depicted, is a more perfect hero than Amadis, Esplandian, or Palmerin. In effect, Southey's com- pilation ranks as an historical novel, though the docume...nts on which it is based purport to be history. In spite of the idealizing tendency alluded to, the recital has the strength and the dramatic energy of reality, and differs from other Spanish romances of chivalry as a hero-saga differs from an Italian opera. The career of the Cid as here related gives a unity and an order like that of epic narrative to the incidents of the wars between the Kings of Castile, Aragon, and Navarre, and the struggles with the Moors. The outstand- ing episodes are the repeated banishment of the Cid, his wars with the Moors, the capture of Valencia which he erects into a kingdom for himself, the outrage of the Cid's sons-in- law, the Infantes of Carrion, upon his daughters (who, by the way, are mythical) and the avenging thereof, with the death of the Cid and the last battle, where his dead body puts the Moors to flight, [is.
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