Tirant LoBlanc; The Lusty Medieval Classic

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The novel itself is everything that late-medieval, early-Renaissance novel of chivalry should be: Tirant, the hero, is as wonderfully superhuman in war and gloriously human—if a bit obtuse—in love as one could wish, while Carmesina, daughter of the emperor of Greece, is as perfect as any high-minded, well-spoken, well-read, and hot-blooded damsel of fourteen years could be. Together, they act as perfect foils to each other, as their protracted, furtive, and somewhat ill-starred romance forms the center of much of the novel's action. That the course of true love never did run smooth is, in their case, an understatement. Thwarted by the disparity of their respective positions in society until near the end of the novel, when Tirant is designated to succeed the emperor and to wed the princess he has already won, foxed by the cunning of the Easygoing Widow, from whom the Wyf of Bath could have learned a trick or two, separated by conventional morality and then by shipwreck, they finally unite in a joyously sportive celebration of sexuality, and then reunite, once their future earthly union is duly assured, in death.

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