Juan de Mena

A classic, Dantesque political epic from medieval Spain that inspired Cervantes and Góngora, in its first English translation. Why do the injustices of the past still afflict the present? With this question, Juan de Mena is transported to heaven by a vision in the Dantesque The Labyrinth of Fortune. Composed in 1444 by Mena, a royal chronicler and Latin secretary...