Everything about Garci Rodr Guez De Montalvo totally explained
Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (or
Garci Ordóñez de Montalvo) (died
1504) was a
Spanish author who arranged the modern version of the
chivalric romance Amadis of Gaul, written in three books in the 14th century by an unknown author. Montalvo added a fourth book of his own and also wrote a sequel,
Las sergas de Esplandián (The Exploits of Esplandian) (oldest known printing, 1510), in which he tells the life and wandering of Amadis' eldest son. The saga was continued in the sixth book "Florisando" (by Ruiz Paez de Ribera, 1510), followed by "Lisuarte of Greece" (by Feliciano de Silva, 1514), "Lisuarte of Greece" (by Juan Diaz, 1525), "Amadis of Greece" (by Feliciano de Silva, 1530), etc.
In the sequel, Rodríguez described a mythical
Island of California as being west of the Indies:
» Know, that on the right hand of the Indies there's an island called California very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise; and it's peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they live in the manner of Amazons.
The novel was highly influential in motivating
Hernán Cortés and other explorers in the discovery of the Island, which they believed lay along the west coast of
North America. In
1539,
Francisco de Ulloa, sailing under the commission of Cortés, explored the
Gulf of California and the coast of
Baja California, determining that it was a
peninsula, not an
island. Nevertheless, the cartographic misconception of California as an island persisted on many
European maps well into the
18th century.
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