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Tyrant lo Blanche, a chivalric novel written by the Valencian knight Joanot Martorell.
This boom was reflected in the growth of artistic and cultural pursuits. During this period, some of the city's most iconic buildings were built, including the towers of Serranos (1392), Lonja (1482), Miguelete and the chapel of the kings of the Monastery of Santo Domingo. In painting and sculpture, Flemish and Italian trends influenced Valencian artists such as Luis Dalmau, Peris Gonçal and Damia Forment. Literature flourished under the auspices of the court of Alfonso the Magnanimous, supporting authors such as Ausias March, Royce de Corella, and Isabelle de Villena.
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By 1460, Joanot Martorell had written Tyrant lo Blanche, a pioneering novel of chivalry that influenced many later writers, from Cervantes to Shakespeare. Ausias March was one of the first poets to use the everyday Valencian language instead of the troubadour Occitan language. Around the same time, between 1499 and 1502, the University of Valencia was founded under the modest name of Estudio General ("studium generale", a place of general research).
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Valencia was one of the most influential cities in the 15th and 16th centuries. The first printing house in the Iberian Peninsula was located in Valencia, and Lambert Palmart and his associates began printing in 1473. This was thanks to the manager of the Valencian factory of the “Great Trading Company” in Ravensburg, Swabia. The second printed Bible in the Romance language, the Valencian Bible, attributed to Bonifaci Ferrer, was printed in Valencia around 1478.
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After the discovery of America, the European economy was oriented towards the Atlantic Ocean at the expense of trade with the Mediterranean. Despite the dynastic alliance of Aragon with Castile, the conquest and exploitation of America was the exclusive prerogative of Castile. Valencians, like Catalans, Aragonese and Majorcans, were prohibited from participating in the transatlantic trade.
Faced with this loss of trade, Valencia experienced a severe economic crisis. This manifested itself in early 1519-1523, when the guilds of artisans known as Germany rebelled against the Habsburg government of King Charles I in Valencia, now part of the crown of Aragon, with most of the fighting in 1521. The uprising was an anti-monarchist, anti-feudal autonomist movement inspired by the Italian republics, and a social uprising against the nobility that fled the city before the plague in 1519. It also had an anti-Islamic aspect, as the rebels rebelled against the Aragonese population of Mudejars and forcibly adopted a strong Christianity.