Ausiàs March
Ausiàs March | |
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Valencian language | |
Notable works | Plena de Seny, Llir entre Cards, Amor, amor, Mon darrer bé, Oh, foll amor |
Spouse | Isabel Martorell
(m. 1439–1441)Joana Escorna (m. 1443–1450) |
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Ausiàs March (Catalan and Valencian pronunciation: [awziˈaz ˈmaɾk]; 1400 – March 3, 1459) was a medieval Valencian poet and knight from Gandia, Valencia. He is considered one of the most important poets of the "Golden Century" (Segle d'or) of Catalan/Valencian literature.
Biography
Not much is known of March's life. He was born in approximately 1400 to a Valencian noble family. His father, Pere March, was himself a poet and served at the court of the younger brother of King Alfonso IV, Peter. His uncle, Jaume March II, was also a poet. March was one of the two children of Pere's second wife, Lionor of Ripoll; he had a younger sister, Peirona.[1]
In 1413, the still-young March became head of his family—part of the Valencian petty nobility—upon the death of his father. From a very young age he took part in the expeditions that King
In 1450, he moved from Gandia to Valencia. It was there that he died on March 3, 1459. While March himself was buried in his family's chapel at the Valencia Cathedral, his two wives and family are buried in the Monastery of Sant Jeroni de Cotalba.[2] Five illegitimate children but no legitimate heirs have been attributed to him.
Poetry
Inheriting an easy fortune from his father, Pere March—the treasurer to the
March was one of the first poets to use the local vernacular, Valencian, instead of the troubadour language, Occitan. His poems are marked by obscurity, a sometimes monotonous morbidity, and a conflicting battle between desire and morality, achieved at its apex in the great Cant Spiritual. He was fully entitled to the supremacy which he enjoyed among his contemporaries, and the success of his innovation no doubt encouraged
March's poetry has been set to music by Raimon, Joan Brudieu and other composers.[5]
Gallery
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Portrait at the Palace of the Marqués de Dosaigües, Valencia
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Statue of March at the Central Municipal Library of Valencia
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Monument in Gandia
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Monument on the premises of a secondary school in Barcelona
See also
Notes
- ^ "Ausiàs March – L'autor" (in Catalan). Iluisvives.com. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ^ Las Provincias. "Hallan en Sant Jeroni de Cotalba los restos de las dos esposas y el padre de Ausiàs March". Published 14 November 2016.
- ^ a b c public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "March, Auzias". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 688. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ For a thorough treatment of imitatio, see Thomas M. Greene's The Light in Troy
- ^ Four settings by Brudieu: Fantasiant, Amor a mi descobre. Si fos Amor substança rahonable. Lir entre carts, lo meu voler se tempra. Plena de seny, donau-me una crosta. on CD accompanying book, Magraner, Charles. Fantasiant, Música y poesía para Ausiàs March CDM 0927, Valencia 2009
References
- Ford, J.D.M. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.).
External links
- Ausiàs March in the AELC (Association of Writers in the Catalan Language), (in English, Catalan, and Spanish)
- "Ausiàs March". lletrA-UOC – Open University of Catalonia.
- A key anthology translated to English by the Anglo-Catalan Society.
- Biography and some poems (in English)
- Short biography and some pictures from Find A Grave
- English verse translations of poem I, poem IV, and poem XXVIII
- Works by Ausiàs March at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)