Plausibilitat d’un ancestre comú entre les obres mitològiques de Joan Roís de Corella i les Transformacions de Francesc Alegre

Abstract

Between the Transformacions of Francesc Alegre (c.1452 - c.1508) and the mythological proses of Joan Rois de Corella some textual coincidences have been detected. Not without reservations, these coincidences have been explained as Corellas influence on Alegre. This is the most satisfactory explanation, given Alegre’s admiration and imitation of Corella’s prose, and Corella’s huge fame in the second half of the fifteenth century. However, Alegre knew earlier versions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses , such as that by Francesc de Pinos (1416-1475), or the anonymous Castilian version, both nowadays lost. And perhaps these versions were known by Corella too. The textual coincidences of these two authors have been analyzed here to determine if they respond to Corella’s direct influence or if, in some cases, they could be explained by a common ancestor.