“Lo rossinhols s’esbaudeya” (70, 29): Bernart de Ventadorn, Courtly Ethics and the Catalan Tradition

The legacy of Bernart de Ventadorn (fl. 1147-1170) in Catalan and Valencian lyric of the 14th and 15th centuries, while as important as his impact on German and French traditions (for instance, Gaucelm Faidit, fl. 1172-1203), is much less known. This article fills an important gap by tracing intertextual echoes of one poem, "Lo rossinhols s’esbaudeya," in later texts by Pere Torroella (ca. 1420-95, author of poems in Catalan and Castilian, and the central figure at the court of Juan II of Aragon, including in Naples from 1450, and Carlos IV of Navarra), Gilabert de Próixita (fl. 1392-1405, author of 21 extant Catalan poems, whose family, originary of Naples, was connected to Pere the Great), Joan Berenguer de Masdovelles (author of some 180 poems, the greatest medieval poetic corpus in Catalan, active in Barcelona ca.1442-76), and the Valencian poet writing in Catalan Joan Roís de Corella (1435-1497).