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Jorge de Montemayor's great pastoral novel La Diana (1559), one of the fountainheads of Spanish Renaissance literature, has often been regarded as a work written merely to amuse an effete courtly world. Bruno M. Damiani argues here that, far from being simply a ""pastoral dream,"" Diana has profound socio-historical and religious dimensions, and that Montemayor's intentions in it were largely moral and instructive.The timeless, idyllic nature which forms the essence of the pastoral is, in the case of Diana, inextricably bound up with the grace and sophistication of urban Spanish culture. In

Social problems in literature. --- Literature and society --- Didactic literature, Spanish --- Spanish didactic literature --- Spanish literature --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- History --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- Montemayor, Jorge de, --- Montemajor, George de, --- Montemor, Jorge de, --- Monte-Major, H. J. de, --- De Montemayor, Jorge, --- Montemayor, --- Pérez, Alonso, --- Polo, Gaspar Gil, --- Religion. --- Political and social views.