«Muerte, cates / que non cates»: el "discor" 510 de Fray Diego de Valencia en el Cancionero de Baena

Authors

  • Luís M. Girón-Negrón Harvard University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/rfe.2002.v82.i3/4.155

Keywords:

Lexicography, Linguistic historiography

Abstract


The first half of our essay offers a close reading of a poem by fray Diego de Valencia as a neglected chef d'oeuvre in late medieval Spanish elegiac poetry: his lyrical invective against Death personified in the decir 510 in the Cancionero de Baena. In the second half, we argue that Valencia's special affinity for rhyming homonyms in this elegy and in his other works (even when compared to the poets represented in the Cancionero de Baena) may reflect the persistent recourse to this rhetorical figure (the Latin traductio) in medieval Hebrew poetics (a literary tradition whose language he used with great skill as shown in the decir 501).

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Published

2002-12-30

How to Cite

Girón-Negrón, L. M. (2002). «Muerte, cates / que non cates»: el "discor" 510 de Fray Diego de Valencia en el Cancionero de Baena. Revista De Filología Española, 82(3/4), 249–272. https://doi.org/10.3989/rfe.2002.v82.i3/4.155

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