Joanot Martorell (1413-1468) was the Valencian author of the novel Tirant lo Blanch, which is written in Catalan, (Martorell calls it "the Valencian vernacular" "vulgar llengua valenciana" used in the Crown of Aragon). First published in Valencia in 1490, it was re-pressed in Barcelona in 1497, and some consider it the first modern novel in Europe. It deals with the adventures of a knight in the Byzantine Empire with echoes of the real-life Catalan Company. Wikipedia
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N. Martin, John, 1865-1947 Martorell, Joanot, 1415-1480 Marx, W.J. Masefield, John, 1878-1967 Mason, John Massart, Jean Mather, Frank Jewett Mathews, Joanna H. www.gutenberg.org/author/J
