Joan Roís de Corella (;

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, 1435 –

, 1497) was a Catalan-language writer from the Kingdom of Valencia. He was born into a minor noble family of Aragonese origin in either

and apparently followed a career in the

church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * C ...

. He may have been ordained as a priest, but apparently had two children. He is believed to have contributed to '' Tirant lo Blanc''. His other works, in prose and verse, included the ''Tragèdia de Caldesa'' and the ''Parlament en casa de Berenguer Mercader''. He also produced a translation of the psalter into Valencian. He died at Valencia in 1497.

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Selected works by Joan Roís de Corella
at the Biblioteca Virtual Joan Lluís Vives.

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