La Galatea

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La Galatea is an early pastoral novel by Miguel de Cervantes that explores idealized rural life and romantic entanglements among shepherds.

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La Galatea canonical 2
La Galatea: Primera parte 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Spanish novel
literary work
pastoral novel
alternateTitle La Galatea
surface form: La Galatea: Primera parte
author Miguel de Cervantes
characterType shepherdesses
shepherds
contains eclogues
poems
songs
countryOfOrigin Spain
explores relationship between nature and human emotion
tension between idealized love and reality
firstPublicationDate 1585
genre pastoral fiction
romantic fiction
hasForm prosimetrum
hasSequelPlanned yes
literaryInfluence Italian pastoral tradition
Jacopo Sannazaro's Arcadia
literaryMovement Spanish Golden Age
literarySignificance early work of Miguel de Cervantes
example of Spanish pastoral novel
mainCharacters Elicio
Erastro
Galatea
Leonida
Lisandro
mainTheme friendship
idealized rural life
jealousy
love
romantic entanglements
unrequited love
mentionedIn Don Quixote
narrativeForm prose
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalLanguage Spanish
period Renaissance literature
placeOfPublication Alcalá de Henares
publisher Blas de Robles
sequelStatus uncompleted
setting Spanish countryside
idealized rural landscape
structure six books
timePeriodOfComposition late 16th century

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Miguel de Cervantes notableWork La Galatea
La Galatea alternateTitle La Galatea
this entity surface form: La Galatea: Primera parte