Events

Leticia Eirín García, a professor at the University of A Coruña and a member of the ILLA Group, will present her work A visión do amor no cancioneiro de Don Denis. Estudo e edición de 33 cantigas de amor (Edicións Laiovento) on Thursday, April 27, at 8:00 PM, at the Linda Rama café-books in A Coruña (Calle Porta de Ares, 4, Ciudad Vieja). At the event, the author will be joined by two other ILLA Group members: Professor Teresa López and Professor Manuel Ferreiro.

A visión do amor no cancioneiro de Don Denis contains a textual corpus consisting of thirty-three cantigas de amor by the Portuguese king and troubadour Don Denis (1261-1325), which explicitly reflect the motif of the lady’s vision—a theme present in literature since Classical Antiquity. Through these texts, Leticia Eirín García offers an analysis from the perspective of vision and troubadour love, providing a panorama of the amorous sentiment experienced by the male poetic voice, whose genesis is precisely rooted in the contemplation of the "senhor." This study includes a rhetorical and literary commentary on each of the thirty-three compositions, along with its textual establishment, following "neo-Lachmannian" trends and other current and significant contributions to textual criticism.

The songbook of Don Denis, composed of one hundred thirty-seven cantigas, makes him the most prolific troubadour of our medieval poetry; however, he also stands out qualitatively, due to the combination in his compositions of prior poetic tradition with innovative elements, as well as the dialogue he establishes with other schools, especially the Provençal. In this sense, the present work aims to highlight the uniqueness of Don Denis's lyrical production within the formal homogeneity that characterizes our medieval poetry, emphasizing his role as the last great monarch of the Galician-Portuguese troubadour school, which will contribute to the (re)recognition, recovery, and appreciation of our cultural and literary heritage.