Cantigas : : Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poems / / ed. by Richard Zenith.

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• HerausgeberIn: Zenith, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation ; 131
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and SpainThe rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros, or songbooks, in the nineteenth century. These compendiums revealed close to 1,700 songs, or cantigas, composed by around 150 troubadours from Galicia, Portugal, and Castile in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. In Cantigas, award-winning translator Richard Zenith presents a delightful selection of 124 of these poems in English versions that preserve the musical quality of the originals, which are featured on facing pages. By turns romantic, spiritual, ironic, misogynist, and feminist, these lyrics paint a vibrant picture of their time and place, surprising us with attitudes and behaviors that are both alien and familiar.The book includes the three major kinds of cantigas. While cantigas de amor (love poems in the voice of men) were largely inspired by the troubadour poetry of southern France, cantigas de amigo (love poems voiced by women) derived from a unique native oral tradition in which the narrator pines after her beloved, sings his praises, or mocks him. In turn, cantigas de escárnio are satiric, and sometimes outrageously obscene, lyrics whose targets include aristocrats, corrupt clergy, promiscuous women, and homosexuals.Complete with an illuminating introduction on the history of the cantigas, their poetic characteristics, and the men who composed and performed them, this engaging volume is filled with exuberant and unexpected poems.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Notes on the Text and Translation -- Acknowledgments -- The Cantigas -- Osoiro Anes -- Gil Sanches -- Fernão Rodrigues de Calheiros -- Paio Soares de Taveirós -- Lopo -- Martim Soares -- Afonso Anes do Cotom -- Nuno Fernandes Torneol -- Pero da Ponte -- Joam Garcia de Guilhade -- Roi Queimado -- Pero Garcia Burgalês -- Pero Garcia de Ambroa -- Pero Mafaldo -- Nuno Anes Cerzeo -- Joam Soares Coelho -- Fernão Garcia Esgaravunha -- Juião Bolseiro -- Pedro Anes Solaz -- Joam Lopes de Ulhoa -- Gil Peres Conde -- Afonso Mendes de Besteiros -- Alfonso X, King of Castile and León -- Martim Codax -- Meendinho -- Pero Gomes Barroso -- Roi Pais de Ribela -- Joam Vasques de Talaveira -- Lourenço -- Lourenço and Joam Vasques de Talaveira -- Joam Baveca -- Pero Meogo -- Pedro Amigo de Sevilha -- Roi Fernandes de Santiago -- Joam Lobeira -- Pero Viviães -- Airas Nunes -- Paio Gomes Charinho -- Pero Gonçalves de Portocarreiro -- Martim Moxa -- Joam Airas de Santiago -- Joam Zorro -- Dinis, King of Portugal -- Fernando Esquio -- Estevam Coelho -- Vidal -- Afonso Sanches and Vasco Martins de Resende -- Notes to the Poems -- About the Galician-Portuguese Troubadours -- Bibliography -- The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation