Hurtado de Toledo’s «Cortes de casto amor» and the prosification of the «Ottava Rima» in Boscán: Neoplatonism and Love in Spanish Early Modern Literature

• Main Author: Jimena Gamba Corradine
• Format: Article
• Language: Catalan
• Published: Universitat de Girona; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2013-12-01
• Series: Studia Aurea: Revista de Literatura Española y Teoría Literaria del Renacimiento y Siglo de Oro
• Subjects: octava rima; stanze; novela sentimental; novela pastoril; transmisión de la poesía en el siglo de oro
• Online Access: https://studiaaurea.com/article/view/86

In this article, we show that the <em>Cortes de Casto Amor</em> (Toledo: Juan Ferrer, 1557), published under the name of Luis Hurtado de Toledo, include a prose version of some sections of Juan Boscán’s <em>Octava rima</em>, a poem in which, as it is well known, fragments of Pietro Bembo’s Stanze are translated and imitated. Apart from the task of transforming in prose some lines of the <em>Octava rima</em>, Luis Hurtado de Toledo in his <em>Cortes</em> modifies the ending of Boscan’s poem and proposes an articulation of the conflict of love in the author-protagonist pointing to an intellectual love and, in the end, the love of God.<br />