La influencia de Boccaccio en la literatura catalana medieval (1390-1495): Un estudio de la imitación literaria en Bernat Metge, Bernat Hug de Rocabertí y Joan Roís de Corella

This dissertation studies the impact of the works by Giovanni Boccaccio on Catalan medieval literature. The influence of Italian literature in medieval Iberian writing is traditionally understood as a key component of a wide-ranging cultural process of transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The works of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, the tre corone, played a crucial role in that process. Boccaccio, in particular, became a model for the writing of a variety of literary genres, from misogynistic poetry to chivalric romances. His works, both in Latin and Italian, featured in the most remarkable libraries of the period as well as circulated both in Spanish and Catalan translations. Early twentieth-century criticism offered us the first comprehensive approach to Boccaccio’s influx in the Iberian Peninsula, but this line of inquiry has ever since remained neglected. In the fifteenth century Catalan writers were especially sensitive to the novelties brought forth by the tre corone. That is hardly any surprise, since Italian territories like Sicily and Naples were part of the Crown of Aragon. A cultural community across the Mediterranean framed Boccaccio’s wide readership and imitation. Not only did Boccaccio’s style become a model of prose, but also his literary persona, the ambiguity of his narrators, and his innovations in several literary genres. Catalan authors held the threshold condition of the Crown of Aragon for the Iberian Peninsula. This study begins by tackling a representative work of Catalan prose, Bernat Metge’s Lo somni, in which its author appropriates and reformulates essential discourses of Boccaccio’s Corbaccio. It then moves on to allegorical poetry and examines the Glòria d’amor by Bernat Hug de Rocabertí, a work traditionally considered a bizarre imitation of Dante’s Commedia, against the backdrop of Boccaccio’s Amorosa visione. Lastly, it turns to the presence of Boccaccio in the prose of Joan Roís de Corella. Corella, whose works represent the finest adaptation of sentimental rhetoric among Catalan authors. The cultural contextualization of Boccaccio’s influence in Catalan literature is essential not only to a richer appreciation of these three Catalan authors, but also to a full understanding of the paths leading to Martorell’s Tirant lo Blanc and the birth of the modern novel. Recommended Citation......Page 1 Agradecimientos......Page 7 Resumen......Page 10 Introducción......Page 14 La obra de Giovanni Boccaccio......Page 15 Boccaccio en la Península Ibérica......Page 23 Boccaccio en la Corona de Aragón......Page 27 Estado de la cuestión, justificación y resumen de los capítulos......Page 32 Vida y obra de Bernat Metge......Page 38 Aportaciones anteriores al estudio de la influencia del Corbaccio y las otras fuentes de Lo somni......Page 45 La lectura biográfica y el estudio de las fuentes......Page 52 Influencia a nivel formal: el estilo de Boccaccio en Lo somni......Page 64 La retórica de la ambigüedad......Page 78 Conclusiones......Page 93 Vida y obra de fra Bernat Hug de Rocabertí......Page 95 Las fuentes de la imitación literaria de la Glòria d'amor......Page 101 El fondo de la influencia de Boccaccio en la Glòria d'amor......Page 109 Los modelos de visiones alegóricas......Page 111 Dualidad textual: el prólogo y la narración alegórica......Page 123 La Amorosa visione como modelo de universo cultural......Page 127 Los ejemplos de la mitología......Page 128 La imitación de otros elementos alegóricos......Page 140 Otras conexiones entre la Amorosa visione y la Glòria d'amor......Page 144 Conclusiones......Page 148 Vida y obra de Joan Roís de Corella......Page 150 Las prosas mitológicas......Page 157 Panorama crítico de las prosas de Corella......Page 159 La Fiammetta de Boccaccio y las prosas mitológicas de Corella......Page 165 La cuestión del estilo: de la letteratura mezzana a la valenciana prosa......Page 172 La Fiammetta como modelo de universo literario: moral y literatura en el atardecer de la Edad Media......Page 186 La narrativa del hundimiento personal......Page 187 La narradora y su público femenino......Page 193 La doctrina moral y la medicina literaria......Page 199 Conclusiones......Page 206 Conclusiones......Page 208 Bibliografía......Page 213