Anonimo (già attribuito a Bertran de Born), "Si tuch li dol e·l plor e·l marriment" (BdT 80.41)
The anonymous Si tuch li dol e·l plor e·l marriment (BdT 80.41) is a planh which stands out for its intensity and for its refined rhetorical construction among the 45 surviving examples of this particular lyric genre dating back to the 13th century; the surviving, scanty and late tradition contrasts...
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| Format: | Article |
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Università di Napoli Federico II
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Lecturae Tropatorum |
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| Online Access: | http://www.lt.unina.it/Manetti-2018.pdf |
| Summary: | The anonymous Si tuch li dol e·l plor e·l marriment (BdT 80.41) is a planh which stands out for its intensity and for its refined rhetorical construction among the 45 surviving examples of this particular lyric genre dating back to the 13th century; the surviving, scanty and late tradition contrasts with the fortune that the composition seems to have had in Italy already in Dante’s time (where the attribution to Bertran de Born was perhaps already widespread). Probably composed in 1183 – the year of the death of the young king, namely the eldest son of Henry II Plantagenet – the planh is only transmitted by three manuscripts: a2, which attributes it to ricartz de berbeziu, c, which assigns it to Peire uidal and T, which ascribes it to Beutran dalborn. None of the three attributions can be considered as certain, but the third has had a great success since the second half of the nineteenth century, and the composition is present among those of Bertran de Born in all editions. Even the BdT classifies it under the number corresponding to the troubadour, and it is also mentioned as belonging to Bertran in many very recent studies, sometimes without the caution that Martín de Riquer still shows in his anthology, even though he includes it among the authentic poems. But the ascription to the troubadour of Autafort of BdT 80.41 (of which this study offers a new critical text) is the least probable, as I try to prove. I will discuss alternative attributions: the two indicated by the manuscript tradition, but also others, taking into consideration the troubadours who could have publicly lamented the death of the young king. |
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| ISSN: | 1974-4374 1974-4374 |