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A Roda da Fortuna nos Dictats de Ausiàs March (c. 1397-1439)
The allegory of the Wheel of Fortune is a recurring theme in medieval thought, particularly in Philosophy and Literature. This topic, Roman, but inherited above all from Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius (c.477-524), influenced the Poetry of Ausiàs March (c.1397-1459), a poet who lived in the period of expansion of the Crown of Aragon during the reign of Alfonso the Magnanimous (1396-1458). Our aim is to analyze this image in his Dictats and how the poet dealt in his work with the topic of the instability of the Wheel of Fortune.