Table of Contents:
  • The Italian Precedent: Jacopo Sannazaro's Arcadia
  • Vague Beginnings: Bernardim Ribeiro's Menina e moga
  • Allegory and the Neoplatonic Ideal: Jorge de Montemayor's Siete libros de la Diana
  • Didactic Pastoral: Caspar Gil Polo's Diana enamorada
  • Cervantes' Blood-Spattered Arcadia: La Galatea
  • Lope de Vega's Arcadia: A Step Toward the Modern Novel
  • The Decline of a Genre: Gabriel de Corral's Cintia de Aranjuez
  • Conclusion.