Many of the sixteenth-century prose novels published in German were more or less direct translations from medieval works in Latin, Italian, or French. One of them,
Die Schoen Magelona, was the work of the court teacher, administrator, and diplomat Veit Warbeck, who completed his work in 1527, but it was not printed until 1535, a year after his death in 1534. The original manuscript has survived until today, and following the first publication in 1535, the
Magelonawas reprinted twenty times in the sixteenth century alone and continued to enjoy considerable popularity over the following centuries. The famous Nuremberg cobbler and playwright Hans Sachs created three different poems dealing with the same narrative motif in 1554 and 1555. The highly respected Spanish poet Lope de Vega,…
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Citation: Classen, Albrecht. "Veit Warbeck". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 June 2025 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15453, accessed 08 July 2025.]
