Aesop's Fables: With a Life of Aesop

Aesop's Fables: With a Life of Aesop - Studies in Romance Languages

Hardback (22 Apr 1993)

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The first question, of course, is how Aesop's fables got into Spanish in the first place. In 1489, Johan Hurus translated it from the Latin. It became the best selling book in Spain and Latin America for three centuries, the tales and woodcuts influencing Spanish literature, and the fictional biography of the Greek fabler contributed to the develop

Book information

ISBN: 9780813118123
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Imprint: The University Press of Kentucky
Pub date:
DEWEY: 398.2452
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 239
Weight: 771g
Height: 267mm
Width: 184mm
Spine width: 25mm