Author: Escosura, Jerónimo de la

Title: Crónica. Año de 1420

Genre: short story

Age: Contemporary Age

Description: Published in El Guadalhorce, 07/04/1839: 145-147; 07/21/1839: 156-159; 08/04/1839: 169-171. The Infants of Aragon are very important figures in the history and literature of the nineteenth century, but it is rare that one of them, Don Enrique, is the protagonist. In the romantic story Cronica. Año de 1420, published by Jerónimo de la Escosura in 1839, Enrique de Aragón is a cunning courtier and a poet in love, and he manages to change history because he changes the story with his verses.

Key characters: Enrique de Aragón. Catalina de Castilla. Juan II. Ruy López Dávalos. Álvaro de Luna.

MULIER: Catalina, Infanta of Castilla

Resources:

• • • • • Text.
        • Studies:
          • Ribao Pereira, Montserrat (2018c), “En tiempos del condestable Dávalos: Enrique de Aragón, poeta quejoso en Crónica. Año de 1420, de Jerónimo de la Escosura”, Romance Quarterly, 65-2: 49-58.
        • Additional bibliography.
        • Media:
          • Ribao Pereira, Montserrat. The Romantic interest in the first Castilian Trastamara.
          • Ribao Pereira, Montserrat.  The Romantic writers and Juan II.
        • Links:
          • Real Academia de la Historia: Enrique de Aragón.
          • Santiago González Sánchez (2013), "Un 'golpe de estado' y sus consecuencias: el gobierno del infante don Enrique de Castilla (julio-diciembre de 1420)", En la España medieval, 36.

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