death_date birth_place birth_date language genre article_title name occupation
1504 1450 spain 1450 spanish fiction , chivalric romance garci rodríguez de montalvo
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garci rodríguez de montalvo

garci rodríguez de montalvo -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- not `` garci ordóñez de montalvo '' -rrb- -lrb- ~ 1450 -- 1504 -rrb- 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 '' -lrb- `` the exploits of esplandián '' or `` the adventures of esplandián '' -rrb- -lrb- oldest known printing , 1510 -rrb- , in which he tells the life and wandering of amadis ' eldest son .
the saga was continued by books by later authors .
the books were the sixth novel , `` florisando '' -lrb- by ruiz paez de ribera , 1510 -rrb- , followed by `` lisuarte of greece '' -lrb- by feliciano de silva , 1514 -rrb- , `` lisuarte of greece '' -lrb- by juan diaz , 1525 -rrb- , `` amadis of greece '' -lrb- by feliciano de silva , 1530 -rrb- , etc. .
in the sequel , `` las sergas de esplandián '' , rodríguez described a mythical island of california as being west of the indies : 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 peninsula , 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 .
