The Story of Leander and Hero, by Joan Rois de Corella : A multilingual edition of a classic from the Crown of Aragon

Joan Rois de Corella is one of the most renowned authors of fifteenth-century Catalan literature.

His Story of Leander and Hero uses a well-known Vergilian and Ovidian motif of unremitting love that turns into tragedy.

Corella retells the story adding to it a great dose of suspense and pathos and recasts it in the fashion of sentimental prose, a genre famous at the time and a clear precedent of the great narrative genre to flourish during the Renaissance in the Iberian Peninsula and Europe: the novel.