Diana of Montemayor as Social and Religious Teaching

Jorge de Montemayor's great pastoral novel La Diana (1559), one of the fountainheads of Spanish Renaissance literature, has often been regarded as a work written merely to amuse an effete courtly world. Bruno M. Damiani argues here that, far from being simply a "e;pastoral dream,"e; Diana has profound socio-historical and religious dimensions, and that Montemayor's intentions in it were largely mo...