| Summary: | Spanish Medieval literature is very rich in classical sources, and the mastery of this technique is seen more easily in plays as important as the celebrated Libro de buen amor, written by Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita, in the first half of the fourteenth century. This article discusses one of the many “enxiemplos” included in the Libro, which serve to illustrate a moralizing idea; it is the “Enxiemplo del león e del mur”, a text which note, as in similar cases, clear plot concomitants with different fables related to it and which were written by Aesop, Babrius and Gualterius. However, the study of the main differences between the texts will articulate, even better, some defining characteristics of the literary and artistic style of the Spanish medieval writer, such as the amplificatio, the update, the manners and the use of the stylistic devices.
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