%0 Journal Article
%T Who are Cerver¨ª's Worst Enemies?
%A Miriam Cabr¨¦
%J Glossator : Practice and Theory of the Commentary
%D 2011
%I 
%X This reading proposes a new interpretation of a poem by Catalan troubadour Cerver¨ª de Girona (fl. 1259-85), an interpretation that departs from the accepted, literal solution to this poem (looking for "enemies" Cerver¨¬ descries among the political or familial figures surrounding the poet) to show, via an intertextual reading, that these "enemies" are only metaphorical. Cerver¨¬ is the proud successor of two centuries of troubadour tradition at the Aragonese court of Pere the Great, facing the influx of fashionable Angevin trends, especially the dance-songs imported from the court of Pere of Arragon's enemy Charles of Anjou. Like Sordello's Ensehnamen, Cerver¨¬'s poem 'Una re dey a Deu grazir¡¯ serves as a focal point to refract his present and past career: polemical when his patron was young, more stately now that Cerver¨ª is the public voice of a king. It is a comparison with the Portuguese trovador Johan Soarez Coelho (active at the court of Alfonso III of Portugal until 1279) that conclusively proves the "identity" of Cerveri's "enemies": his own eyes that have betrayed him. The two poets would have interacted at the Toledo court of Alfonso X of Castile in 1269.
%K Cerver¨ª de Girona
%U http://solutioperfecta.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/g4-cabre.pdf