Presentación de la obra

This first critical, variorum edition of El pastor de Flida by Luis Glvez de Montalvo (Madrid, 1582) and edited by Professor Julin Arribas Rebollo of Ohio Wesleyan University, resolves all prior textual problems and offers a definitive text upon which critics and scholars may base their studies. The exhaustive critical apparatus and abundant footnotes facilitate the interpretation of this pastoral romance, one of the pastoral genre's most important contributions to the development of 16th-century Spanish narrative. The importance of El pastor de Flida was recognized long ago. Cervantes pays tribute to it in the famous inspection of Don Quijote's library; and it was praised as well by poets and scholars such as Lope de Vega, Vicente Espinel, Pedro Lanez, Lpez Maldonado, Tamayo de Vargas, and Nicols Antonio, among the most notable