Enyego d'Àvalos, autor de Curial e Güelfa?

The extraordinary personality and life career of the great chamberlain in the Neapolitan court of Alfonso the Magnanimous, Enyego dÀvalos (a kings page in the court of Valencia; chamberlain of the duke of Milan; ambassador of Naples to Milan, Florence and Ferrara; patron of humanists; owner of a magnificent library; exemplary knight and organiser of jousts...) invites us to find points of connection with Curial and Guelfa. Having examined in detail the biography of a man who «aveva buonissima perizia delle lettere latine, e dilettavasi di tutte le gentilezze» (as noted by Vespasiano da Bisticci observes), we see there are so many relevant points of contact with that chivalric romance that we wonder according to the title of this essay if he is the hitherto unknown author of Curial.