He published Anthony Munday's translation of " Amadis de Gaul " ( 1618 19 ), one of the chivalric romances that were enormously popular in the era.
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It was both in the Low Countries and the rest of Europe that courtly romance and chivalric romance was a popular genre as well, often featuring King Arthur or Charlemagne as protagonist.
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At the same time, the noble classes began to differentiate themselves, in many ways, including through reading courtly literature such as the very popular chivalric romances of the 12th century.
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In parallel, the techniques of the captatio benevolentiae began to be used in the prologues of chivalric romance novels, addressing the readers and trying to have them view the work favourably.
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One of the earliest examples of the technique can be found in the 16th century chivalric romance, " Amadis of Gaul " ( 1508 ), written by Garci Rodr�guez de Montalvo.
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Like many of Sand's novels, " Mauprat " borrows from various fictional genres the Gothic novel, chivalric romance, the Bildungsroman, detective fiction and the historical novel.
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Later, the high-flown values of chivalric romance were heavily satirized in Cervantes's " Don Quixote ", which portrayed the charmingly idealistic protagonist as a lovable but hopelessly delusional imbecile.
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The most important works of this genre are the " Shmuel-Bukh " and the " Mlokhim-Bukh " & ndash; chivalric romances about king David and other Biblical heroes.
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Verdizotti's poetic work includes a translation into ottava rima of the second book of the Aeneid ( 1560 ) and a chivalric romance, " Del L'Aspramonte " ( 1594 ).
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It has also been argued that the poem was based on the form of medieval morality tale known as " exemplum ", or that it was intended as a parody of the chivalric romance.
