Avant la vida : aux origines de la légende de Jaufre Rudel, grand amour ou petite mort ? Les témoignages de Rofian et de Pétrarque

According to legend, Jaufre Rudel died happy in the arms of the Countess of Tripoli. But an earlier or contemporary testimony states that the troubadour died on the high seas : Rofian maintains qe moric al passage, that he died during the crossing. Petrarch follows Rofian. He places Jaufre among the...

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Main Author: Roy Rosenstein
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Published: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée 2021-05-01
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description According to legend, Jaufre Rudel died happy in the arms of the Countess of Tripoli. But an earlier or contemporary testimony states that the troubadour died on the high seas : Rofian maintains qe moric al passage, that he died during the crossing. Petrarch follows Rofian. He places Jaufre among the unhappy troubadours for he had set out to die and did not live to see his distant lady. Unlike Rofian and Petrarch, it was the author of the vida who had the brilliant idea to keep the dying poet alive long enough to reach Tripoli. The vida has him arrive in the Holy Land as good as dead: per mort. For him to expire in the arms of his distant love, whom he would have seen up close at last, was an inspired step, but only one step. Despite critics from Gaston Paris to Don Monson, simply the memory of Lanquan li jorn and an awareness of the troubadour’s noble ancestry leave too much room to the vida author’s imagination. Rofian provides the missing link in showing the troubadour died on his way. The role of the imagination in the vida – necessary and worthy – is limited to keeping the poet alive long enough to reach the Countess’s arms.
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spelling doaj.art-c3ac1461d9ce4f95b885bf28a6884f322023-04-04T09:26:18ZfraPresses universitaires de la MéditerranéeRevue des Langues Romanes0223-37112391-114X2021-05-0112510912010.4000/rlr.4139Avant la vida : aux origines de la légende de Jaufre Rudel, grand amour ou petite mort ? Les témoignages de Rofian et de PétrarqueRoy RosensteinAccording to legend, Jaufre Rudel died happy in the arms of the Countess of Tripoli. But an earlier or contemporary testimony states that the troubadour died on the high seas : Rofian maintains qe moric al passage, that he died during the crossing. Petrarch follows Rofian. He places Jaufre among the unhappy troubadours for he had set out to die and did not live to see his distant lady. Unlike Rofian and Petrarch, it was the author of the vida who had the brilliant idea to keep the dying poet alive long enough to reach Tripoli. The vida has him arrive in the Holy Land as good as dead: per mort. For him to expire in the arms of his distant love, whom he would have seen up close at last, was an inspired step, but only one step. Despite critics from Gaston Paris to Don Monson, simply the memory of Lanquan li jorn and an awareness of the troubadour’s noble ancestry leave too much room to the vida author’s imagination. Rofian provides the missing link in showing the troubadour died on his way. The role of the imagination in the vida – necessary and worthy – is limited to keeping the poet alive long enough to reach the Countess’s arms.http://journals.openedition.org/rlr/4139Jaufre RudelVidasRofianPetrarchSecond Crusade
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Avant la vida : aux origines de la légende de Jaufre Rudel, grand amour ou petite mort ? Les témoignages de Rofian et de Pétrarque
Revue des Langues Romanes
Jaufre Rudel
Vidas
Rofian
Petrarch
Second Crusade
title Avant la vida : aux origines de la légende de Jaufre Rudel, grand amour ou petite mort ? Les témoignages de Rofian et de Pétrarque
title_full Avant la vida : aux origines de la légende de Jaufre Rudel, grand amour ou petite mort ? Les témoignages de Rofian et de Pétrarque
title_fullStr Avant la vida : aux origines de la légende de Jaufre Rudel, grand amour ou petite mort ? Les témoignages de Rofian et de Pétrarque
title_full_unstemmed Avant la vida : aux origines de la légende de Jaufre Rudel, grand amour ou petite mort ? Les témoignages de Rofian et de Pétrarque
title_short Avant la vida : aux origines de la légende de Jaufre Rudel, grand amour ou petite mort ? Les témoignages de Rofian et de Pétrarque
title_sort avant la vida aux origines de la legende de jaufre rudel grand amour ou petite mort les temoignages de rofian et de petrarque
topic Jaufre Rudel
Vidas
Rofian
Petrarch
Second Crusade
url http://journals.openedition.org/rlr/4139
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