Poema de mio Cid (1868)
Poema de mio Cid is a 1868 romances book written by Anonymous.
El Cantar de mio Cid is the oldest surviving Castilian epic, composed around 1200 by an unknown hand. It follows Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the warrior known as El Cid, after the king exiles him from Castile. Stripped of standing, he wages war along the frontier between Christian and Muslim Spain, rebuilds his fortune sword by sword, and works to restore his family's honor and his place at court. The verse is plain and martial, closer to a soldier's chronicle than to courtly romance. Only three leaves of the single medieval manuscript have been lost, and the poem endures as a national epic of Spain.
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El Cantar de mio Cid is the oldest surviving Castilian epic, composed around 1200 by an unknown hand. It follows Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the warrior known as El Cid, after the king exiles him from Castile. Stripped of standing, he wages war along the frontier between Christian and Muslim Spain, rebuilds his fortune sword by sword, and works to restore his family's honor and his place at court. The verse is plain and martial, closer to a soldier's chronicle than to courtly romance. Only three leaves of the single medieval manuscript have been lost, and the poem endures as a national epic of Spain.
When was Poema de mio Cid published?
Poema de mio Cid was published in 1868.
Who made Poema de mio Cid?
Poema de mio Cid was written by Anonymous.
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The obvious next stop is El Cid, Anthony Mann's 1961 epic with Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren, which stages the exile and the frontier campaigns on a scale the plain verse only gestures at. It remains the definitive screen version of the legend.