biography
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Sant Jordi, Jordi de
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pronunciation:
[san khaw(r)dee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1385–c.1424)
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| biography:
| Catalan poet and court chamberlain to Alfonso V of Aragón. His music and Petrarchan love songs in the Valencian dialect of Catalan mark the high point of the Catalan Renaissance. He accompanied Alfonso in 1420 on expeditions to Corsica and Sardinia, and is recorded in Naples during 1422–3, when he was imprisoned for about a month by the condottiere Sforza. He is known to have died unmarried before 30 January 1425. The virtuosity of his ‘Cançió d'opòsits’, with words taken from Petrarch's sonnet 90, was praised by Santillana. ‘Presoner’ is a poem with neither presumption nor abasement imploring the king's help. The melancholy of his ‘Comiat’ and ‘Enyorament’ avoid the sentimentality prevalent at the time, and ‘Estat d'honor’ is a poem dedicated to the idea of ennoblement by secular love. Milà i Fontanals claimed to have identified Sant Jordi's reyna d'honor with Queen María herself; Riquer prefers the widowed Queen Margarita de Prades. |
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