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Amadis of Gaul

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Amadis of Gaul , Fr. Amadis de Gaule , famous prose romance of chivalry, first composed in Spain or Portugal and probably based on French sources. Entirely fictional, it dates from the 13th or 14th cent., but the first extant version in Spanish, a revision by García de Rodríguez de Montalvo, was published in 1508. The original inspired innumerable variations and continuations, as well as several translations. It was immensely popular in France and Spain until superseded by Don Quixote, and it was, indeed, a sign of inelegance not to be acquainted with its code of honor and knightly perfection. Its influence is apparent in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia. The story became the subject of a lyric tragedy by Philippe Quinault (1684), with music by Lully, and it inspired the opera Amadigi (1715) by Handel.

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Amadis of Gaul (Amadis de Gaula), a Spanish or Portuguese romance, written in the form in which we have it by Garcia de Montalvo in the second half of the 15th and printed early in the 16th cent. The romance was translated into English by Munday (?1590), and an abridged version by Southey appeared in 1803.
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Oriana a name frequently applied by poets to Elizabeth I; in the medieval Spanish or Portuguese romance Amadis of Gaul, the princess of Britain with whom the hero Amadis is in love is named Oriana.
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