Английская Википедия:Curial e Güelfa

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The start of the third book in the only manuscript copy includes one of two decorated initials actually finished.Шаблон:Sfn

Curial e Güelfa is an anonymous Catalan chivalric romance of the fifteenth century, notable for incorporating elements of Italian humanism. Known from a single manuscript and unpublished until the twentieth century, it is today considered a highly original masterpiece.

The romance is set in the late thirteenth century. Curial and Güelfa, the title characters, are a knight and his lady. Curial travels widely, performing deeds of chivalry, but a rift opens between him and Güelfa. During further travels, he is shipwrecked and enslaved in a pagan land. He escapes with a fortune and, after defeating the pagans, is reunited with Güelfa.

Date, place and authorship

Curial was probably written in the period 1443–1448 or thereabouts.Шаблон:Sfn Since it refers to the Hospitaller langue of Spain, it was probably completed before 1462, when that langue was divided between Aragon and Castile.Шаблон:Sfn It is written in the Valencian dialect of Catalan, which was then the prestige dialect, since Alfonso the Magnanimous, king of Aragon, had made Valencia his chief residence prior to 1432. The author appears to have knowledge of Italian and Castilian.Шаблон:Sfn The text was probably written in Italy.Шаблон:Sfn

There have been many attempts to identify the author with known historical persons. Antoni Ferrando Francés suggests that he was Joan Olzina, Alfonso's secretary. Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol suggests Lluís Sescases, Alfonso's librarian.Шаблон:Sfn Most recently, Abel Soler has suggested Íñigo Dávalos, a Castilian who served Alfonso in Valencia and Italy.Шаблон:Sfn There is no scholarly consensus in favour of any of these proposals.Шаблон:Sfn

It has been suggested that the work is a translation from Italian. Although this is not accepted, the essentially Italian character of the work is generally acknowledged. It has also been suggested, on the basis of its uniqueness, that Curial is a 19th-century forgery of Manuel Milà i Fontanals. The text is generally accepted as authentic today.Шаблон:Sfn The physical attributes of the manuscript (ink, paper, binding) are characteristic of the 15th century.Шаблон:Sfn

Textual history

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First page of the manuscript, showing spaces for initials never drawn

Only a single manuscript of Curial e Güelfa is known. It is now MS 9750 in the Spanish National Library in Madrid. It was ignored or forgotten until rediscovered by Manuel Milà i Fontanals in 1876. The first edition appeared in print in 1901.Шаблон:Sfn

The work bears no date, title or dedication, since the first quire of the manuscript is missing.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The romance itself is complete, although a few blank spaces suggest it was copied from an incomplete draft version. It is not the autograph. As it stands, it contains 224 folios (448 pages) of watermarked paper. The binding is in the Mudéjar style with iron clasps, typical of Castile. The handwriting is of Catalan notarial style.Шаблон:Sfn The manuscript was probably made by an Aragonese- or Castilian-speaking scribe.Шаблон:Sfn

There have been two English translations.[1] There are also translations into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and German.[2]

Synopsis

Curial e Güelfa is a conventional title, reflecting the names of its two main characters.Шаблон:Sfn It was coined, in the Spanish form Curial y Güelfa, by Antoni Rubió i Lluch, the editor of the 1901 edition.Шаблон:Sfn Curial is a poor knight and a vassal of the marquis of Montferrat. Güelfa is the sister of the marquis and a widow of the duke of Milan.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

The action in Curial e Güelfa takes place in Italy, Germany, Hungary, France, England, Greece, the Holy Land, Egypt and Tunisia.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn It refers to Catalonia, but not to Valencia. It is set during the reign of King Peter III of Aragon (1276–1285).Шаблон:Sfn While its "sentimental framework" is Italian, its cultural framework is French. The deeds of chivalry mostly take place in France.Шаблон:Sfn

Curial is divided into three books. Each has a prologue and is subdivided into chapters. The chapters lack headings. In the manuscript, spaces have been left for the addition of initials at the start of each chapter, but these were never done.Шаблон:Sfn

In the assessment of Martí de Riquer, Curial is "a strikingly original work, written with skill, an excellent style, and a good narrative sense."Шаблон:Sfn

First book

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Title page of the first edition (1901)

In the first book, Curial convinces Güelfa to take him under her protection.Шаблон:Sfn She appoints her majordomo, Melchior de Pandó, to tutor him. As a result of rumours about his relationship with Güelfa spread by two jealous courtiers, Curial is banished from court by the marquis.Шаблон:Sfn

Curial and Jacob of Cleves learn that the duchess of Austria has been falsely accused of adultery. They travel to Austria, where Curial defeats the knights who had made the false accusation. The duchess's father, the duke of Bavaria, offers the hand in marriage of his other daughter, the beautiful Laquesis. Although Curial falls in love with her, he refuses her hand. When Güelfa learns of the marriage proposal, she becomes extremely jealous. Curial returns to Montferrat, where, with the help of three Catalan knights, he defeats the Neapolitan knight Boca de Far in a tournament held by the marquis.Шаблон:Sfn

Second book

In the second book, Curial goes to attend a tournament held by the king of France in Melun. He is accompanied by Güelfa's maid Arta (calling herself Festa). Along the way, he engages in many acts of knight errantry and joins four Aragonese knights.Шаблон:Sfn

At Melun, he fights for Güelfa.Шаблон:Sfn He takes the side of the Aragonese and Burgundians against the French and Bretons. King Peter of Aragon fights incognito.Шаблон:Sfn Curial defeats every foe in the presence of Laquesis.Шаблон:Sfn Afterwards, Güelfa orders him to remain in Paris, where he defeats the knight called the "Boar of Vilahir".Шаблон:Sfn

Curial eventually returns to Montferrat to clear his name from certain slander, but Güelfa renounces her protection of him until the French court meeting at Le Puy intervenes on his behalf.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Third book

In the third book, Curial wanders throughout the Holy Land and Greece.Шаблон:Sfn At Saint Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, he meets the reformed Boar of Vilahir, now a Franciscan.Шаблон:Sfn

In a dream,Шаблон:Sfn he visits Mount Parnassus, where the Muses ask him "whether Achilles' defeat of Hector in the Trojan War was in accord with the laws of chivalry."Шаблон:Sfn On his return voyage, he is shipwrecked in Tunisia.Шаблон:Sfn There he is forced to work seven years as a slave for Fàraig, whose daughter Càmar falls in love with him. He refuses her and she commits suicide, leaving him a large treasure she stole from her father.Шаблон:Sfn Through the intervention of the Aragonese ambassador, Curial is freed.Шаблон:Sfn

Curial returns to Montferrat in disguise, but Güelfa recognized him when he sings the "elephant song".Шаблон:Sfn Still she will not take him back.Шаблон:Sfn He goes to the French court, is heavily rewarded and falls into luxury and debauchery.Шаблон:Sfn He then raises and army to fight the Turks and rescues Güelfa's brother in battle.Шаблон:Sfn He is restored to the marquis's favour and is rewarded by the emperor of Constantinople.Шаблон:Sfn

Finally, Curial attends a tournament before the French court at Le Puy. The court intercedes for him and Güelfa takes him back. The two are wed.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Source material and influences

The plot of Curial is taken from novella 61 of the vernacular Italian Cento novelle antiche of the 13th century.Шаблон:Sfn

In its realism, Curial has some resemblance to contemporary French chivalric narratives, such as Livre des faits du bon messire Jehan le Maingre, dit Boucicaut and Livre des faits de Jacques de Lalaing.Шаблон:Sfn The basic plot is similar to that of Le Petit Jehan de Saintré, a contemporary romance by Antoine de la Salle.Шаблон:Sfn Most of its identifiable sources, however are Italian.Шаблон:Sfn It draws heavily on the works of the early Italian humanists: Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio.Шаблон:Sfn Boccaccio's Filocolo and Benvenuto da Imola's commentary on Dante's Divine Comedy have been identified as models.Шаблон:Sfn It also draws on the Matter of Britain.Шаблон:Sfn

The author of Curial was familiar with the story of Шаблон:Ill, a copy of which was catalogued in the royal library in Valencia in 1417.Шаблон:Sfn

The song which Curial composes for Güelfa upon his return from Tunisia is Atressi com l'aurifany, in fact composed by Rigaut de Berbezilh.Шаблон:Sfn

There are also classical borrowings. The role of Càman is that of Dido lifted from Virgil's Aeneid.Шаблон:Sfn The Mythologiae of Fulgentius is cited in the preface to the third book. The name of Laquesis is that of Lachesis from Plato's Republic, the Latin translation of Manuel Chrysoloras and Uberto Decembrio having reached Naples in 1440.Шаблон:Sfn

CurialШаблон:'s description of the chivalrous King Peter matches that in the chronicle of Bernat Desclot. The names of two characters appear to be based on real figures of 15th-century Naples: Melcior de Pando being based on the Pandone counts of Venafro, Boca de Far on the knight Bucca di Faro.Шаблон:Sfn Abel Soler argues that the echoes of the chronicles of Desclot and Ramon Muntaner were mediated by Italian historiography and are not reflective of the author's direct acquaintance.Шаблон:Sfn

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  1. ↑ In Шаблон:Harvnb and Шаблон:Harvnb.
  2. ↑ Publisher's description of Шаблон:Harvnb.
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