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New contributions to the knowledge of Spanish poetry cancioneril

[I'm going to tell a story full of valuable doctrine and virtuous and exemplary teaching, which I have not the doubt should serve, as it must serve the whole story is not just vacuous and inane fiction or simply untrue and truffle Palladian, that take warning, or warning him that is on time, somebody else. Surprising and perhaps paradoxically, history, even wisdom, exemplary and virtuous is complete and strictly fictional, as fictional as it will be impossible to discover after each of the characters, places or actions alluded to character, place or real action. Or maybe not.

long time ago, but not so much that all memory of what follows is completely lost in the vast remote capital of a caliphate, there lived a young man who was serving in the regime of semi-professionals as scribe or clerk in a very named institution or guild who had managed over the centuries to create a good reputation often unfounded, and based on it, made with some other fat surprisingly strong and unchallenged monopoly. The young man, the poetic folk tale we paint requires young, relatively innocent, and somewhat pure in spirit, was summoned one day by the Grand Vizier who guided the destinies of the above institution or guild to the Throne Room. This Grand Vizier was not really the Caliph of the kingdom, but the Caliph left in their hands the most mundane matters: yet, the Grand Vizier only desire was to be caliph instead of the Caliph. Once our young had reached the Throne Room of the Grand Vizier, the latter asked him something that exceeded the usual requirements that the boy had his position as clerk or clerk in that institution or guild: to write a review of a book of songs published has little in one of the Taifa that made the Caliphate. It would seem to unaccustomed to the poetry of the folk tale that the parcel was a small thing, little substance, and easily doable, but who is after the complexities of poetic folk-tale and it seems that the alternative histories moral-know things are always more complicated than they seem: the book of songs was published has little work the very favorite of the Grand Vizier, and the director of the magazine in which criticism was to appear was none other than the mimsmísimo Grand Vizier. The young hero of our story is aware of the danger that lurks when Siquier perfunctoriamente examines the book, he had already spoken to his friend indignantly Good Dutonia Ogre, who had them for a hard money with him and his perpetrator . Listed as hard and dangerous trance, the young man, who is young, but not an asshole, and that is those who believe that amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas , write a review on this to talk about many, very relevant and very interesting subjects, less than, erm ... the book that has reviewed, and that to avoid saying what they really think about the songs mentioned booklet (already said the young man was not an asshole, or had a special fondness for unemployment or ostracism). The passed onto the editor of the magazine, not long in coming, as the young suspect, a call to go back to the Throne Room of the Grand Vizier, who makes him see that look, pal, I see where you're going, and how will you walk, but I do not give me the cheese, and I want to do is talk about what you speak and speak well, of course, and let the nonsense and rambling, and you know what is if I come with scruples enough to give me a kick in the soil of a Instead of the caliphate to twenty as you sprout. In view of what is seen, and the stern wave of the Grand Vizier, the young, whom I have already said that it is young, but not an asshole, bow your forehead, bend the neck, it alleviates the minutes Bollandiana completito and rewrite critical maiorem ad gloriam the favorite of the Grand Vizier. Of course, it does not slide in the original submitted to the journal an interesting acronym (as expected lost in the printed version) and a pair of evil disguised as compliments to the Grand Vizier, and proud among the proud, and blinded for his constant and blind ambition to be the new caliph, or discover even suspicious. In any case, the second version is, as noted, which reached the press. And then there was the will, as always, the Grand Vizier.

Years pass. The young man is not so, and no longer lives in the capital of the caliphate, or works for the institution or guild monopoly. He now lives in overseas, having lived overseas. The Grand Vizier has already achieved his desire to be caliph, and, even more commendably, has achieved what very few: to be his own successor. As a youth (not so young) and it is free, and has a blog, decided to reprint the text did not like the Big Boss, and share with your friends, and with it (and with) this story, as I suspect not has no clear teaching to offer. Or maybe he did. Sometimes things are not what they seem, others do not seem what they are, sometimes things are not, nor do they appear.]

[ About Cancionero de Palacio (Ms. 2653, Biblioteca Universitaria de Salamanca) Editing Pellitero Ana Maria Alvarez. [Valladolid]: Junta de Castilla y León, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, 1993]

Any opinion is debatable, of course, but I think any expert would consider preposterous that the parcel of hispanomedievalismo that has experienced major progress in the last fifteen years is that which aims to study the lyric cancioneril XV century. Perhaps one of the main reasons for the rise of these studies is the final maturity of the critical prejudices about the lyrics of songs came weighing, solid and long-rooted prejudices in a historiographical tradition leaving an indelible mark on a double curse applied to these texts: first, the caps consisting of insults cast with his usual vehemence by Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo [1] ; second-and rarely referred to him, which meant default preferred dedication of the founder of the English school of philology, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, in other medieval texts most relevant to their interests and preferences in the aesthetic and ideological, as the chansons de geste , chronicles and romances, this lyrical thing cancioneril excluded from both the impressive work of clearing applied by the master English literature medieval and the undeniable influence the work of Menendez Pidal, and their disciples [2] - had in shaping the tourist sites of medieval philology in Spain [3] .

Without forgetting of names pioneers, such as Antonio Rodriguez-Monino, Pierre Le Gentil, José María Azaceta or Charles V. Aubrun [4] , the breakdown of the unfortunate marginalization song lyric that was submitted is attributable primarily to two Anglo-Saxon whose names hispanomedievalistas can not be absent or the more concise bibliography on the subject: Whinnom and Brian Keith Dutton. The first of these we owe a monograph-auction of a series of articles published over the years in which it rejected the insults of Don Marcelino and defined in a solid and convincing Reappraisal cancioneril critical texts worst understood by scholars, amatory content, came to need: The cancioneril love poetry at the time of the Catholic Monarchs [5] . We to second base that any investigation of literary history need if you want to be fairly serious: a code bibliography which lists and locates all the primary sources of lyric cancioneril English, identify and index the poems contained therein are discussed problems of dating and authorship. Spoke of his Catalogue poetry index cancioneril XV century, work done to make a profound and lasting impression on cancioneril studies had it not been for the very Dutton made it worthless to his impressive century Songbook XV (c.1360 - 1520) , which, on expanding and improving its payroll bibliographic index Catalogue, edited texts from the songbooks less accessible and known thus making it much more than a bibliographic reference: it is, in fact, a songbook songbooks without which it is inconceivable future studies on the English lyrical Quattrocento [6] .

these studies do not assign a prominent place in the renovation of the studies on the lyrics of songs would be as unfair as not having in mind others who have helped make accessible or hidden text before making their interpretation easier and understanding. But the bottom line is, no doubt, access to the texts. And, happily, in this area, nucleus of philological research and prior to any attempt of interpretation, where progress has been greater: in recent years have seen the light of songbooks to stringent editions (those of the Cathedral of Segovia, Estúñiga, Juan Alfonso de Baena, Oñate-Castaneda, from Toledo Marqués de Santillana, among other [7] ) as personal production of poetic songs traditionally ignored in favor of the great names of opera Quattrocento (Mena, Santillana, Manrique, etc. [8] ) .

comes happily to expand this wide current edition of the Cancionero de Palacio (Named after its temporary membership in the Royal Library and now is back to its original location of the Tormes river banks under the symbol ms. 2653 in the University of Salamanca) which we owe to Professor Ana Maria Alvarez Pellitero. It was not unheard the Cancionero de Palacio at all: it was the subject of a partial edition as early as 1884 by Alfonso Pérez Gómez Nieva, edited it fifty years ago Francisca Vendrell miles, and Dutton offers a transcript semipaleográfica in Song [9] . But it would be wrong to think that the pre-existence of these issues calls into question the opportunity output of the review here: Editing Pérez Gómez Nieva is no longer a witness to a venerable relic as plausible as rudimentary philological vocation, editing Millás Vendrell, if meritorious for his life, far from now a valid working tool for the philologist, and Dutton, valuable as an approach to the materiality of the codex, it aims to reach ecdotics budgets that define this we are discussing.

is important to the publication of this edition, we review several factors. First by the intrinsic importance the Cancionero de Palacio as cultural product. It is one of the songbooks earliest build date we know (circa 1440; vid. P. XIII for details), and that age is another factor must also consider the end of interest: the most familiar words from these repositories poetic, "the Cancionero de Palacio is much more representative of the courtly atmosphere and general tastes of the first half of the fifteenth century." The importance of the trial unblemished somewhat if we consider that the term of comparison is the Cancionero de Baena "unusual, even bizarre", as ready availability to students (I refer to the above edition, 1851) significantly distorted subsequent literary historiography: "Had it been published [the Cancionero de Palacio ] in 1851, would have been very different history of literary criticism of poetry cancioneril " [10] . True : facing the dominance enjoyed in the Baena and it said allegorical series of questions and answers, very often a mere pretext for metrificador virtuosity, "here stands out with its freshness and vivacity," the lyric poetry of courtly love and aristocratic character in combinations of [...], cosautes mountain, Esparsas, perqué, etc. " [11] . Sean witness to this piece as songs and sayings of García de Pedraza (poems XVIII, XVIII, XX, XXII cosaute ...), the well-known Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (XVI) and the various series of mountain (XXVIII -XXXIV). These are complemented representative of the irreverent pieces like the fusion of love and religion: the well-known attributed to Alvaro de Luna, "God our Savior" (II), or "love Miserere" by Francisco de Villalpando ( XCIV), significantly strikeout in the manuscript. Finally, a clear symptom of general tenor of the Cancionero de Palacio is the absolute predominance of minor art: only two poems of Juan de Dueñas couplets are written in major art (CIX, CXI).

Second, we review the issue that is particularly welcome because it represents a significant improvement over its predecessors. The objective Alvarez Professor Pellet to his edition of Cancionero de Palacio is clear: "debug and fix it the texts, tracing lost forms difficult to interpret, clarify points explain historical and cultural references and expressions of time, to bring to the student of today the voice of the poet, and I'll say, the copier, yesterday. This, and not the content analysis-is the focus of my edition "(Introduction, pp. XII-XIII). The final result is expected in a solid anchor philological endeavor ("I think that taking care of the transcript is not a luxury for philology, but the very heart of our work," ibidem, p. XVII): a transcription carefully prepared, reliable, guided by criteria that show that neatness and accuracy are not synonymous with palaeographic.

The editing of the text is accompanied by a note which deals, in a concise and effective language to clarify details (especially aragonesizantes features of the language of the copier, without doubt original eastern peninsular), lexical text (often based on the testimony of other songbooks), metric or ecdotics. Some of the notes is dedicated to collecting the discrepancies in the text proposed by Professor Alvarez Pellitero regarding editing Millás Vendrell. Its usefulness may not compensate the great effort that surely has brought his painful collection, have been enough to speak the word face to face.

editing precedes a brief preliminary study (pp. VII-XVIII) where the editor briefly discusses the problems of date and provenance of songs, and a little more thoroughly addresses the features codicological the manuscript (perhaps miss some facsimile of one of its pages) and the criteria followed in the edition (to which we have already accomplished by reference). Suffice it to say that the information essential to contextualize the reading of the Cancionero de Palacio is in these pages.

Continue to issue various indexes: of authors, first lines, general (pp. 387-409). Suffice it to say of them that greatly facilitate the student of poetry Quattrocento access to the compositions contained in the song.

In short, Alvarez Professor Pellet has been made available to scholars a well done edition of one of the most important fifteenth-century Castilian songbooks. The fact, in his simple utterance, and realizes the importance of the book review, and makes the opinion expressed at the beginning of these lines, the lyrics cancioneril of four is perhaps the field English literature that more progress has been made the scholarship in the last fifteen years has a more solid foundation and a little less debatable.

Notes

[1] main aspects, as noted by Keith Whinnom in a memorable work that will be mentioned later, the love poetry of the time cancioneril the Catholic Monarchs. Its authors are "all these writers of verse, mostly weak and effete, and their productions," trivial and bland pleasantries " "Dull and mannered poetry" and "chaos of lines often medium" (M. Menéndez y Pelayo, Antología Castilian lyric poets, III [Madrid: CSIC (National Edition of the works of M. Menéndez y Pelayo, XIX) , 1944], pp. 126, 127, 158 and 219). But poetry cancioneril of the past, like John II, is the subject of lawsuits as tough as follows: "Precisely, the real that reached as far as literary forces, gave them this age in the prose in poetry. Small volume occupy the compositions of the Songbooks that can be read without anger and who is not a scholar or historian of the trade "(Op. cit . , II [Madrid: CSIC (National Edition of the Complete Works of M. Menendez Pelayo, XVIII), 1944], p. 22; cf . also pp. 20, 25 and 28). [Back]

[2] While it would be a crime against justice not to mention the main one unforgettable pages devoted to the great poets of the fifteenth and songbooks language I speak, is clear, Rafael Lapesa work and literary work of the Marquis of Santillana , Madrid: Insula, 1957, "The moral element The Labyrinth Ore: its influence on the disposition of the work, "HR , XVII (1959), 257-66," The language of lyric poetry from Macias to Villasandino, RPh , VII (1953 -54), 51-59, among others. [Back]

[3] Vid. for "prejudice" pidalinos José Portolés, Half a century of English Philology (1896-1952). Positivism and idealism (Madrid: Cátedra, 1986), pp. 64-83. It is appropriate to point out that not only omission was his contempt Menéndez Pidal the lyrics of songs: sometimes hard shot her volleys. So when he calls to those represented in the Cancionero General of "aristocratic crowd of poets," and his own collection of Hernando del Castillo's "heap of verses insignificant" (Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Discourse on the original English lyric poetry [Madrid: Ateneo Scientific, Literary and Artistic Madrid, 1919], pp. 10 and 11 respectively. Vid. also pp. 20-29). [Back]

[4] Cancionero General”, recopilado por Hernando del Castillo (Valencia, 1511). Sale nuevamente a la luz reproducido en facsímile por acuerdo de la Real Academia Española con una introducción bibliográfica, índices y apéndices por Antonio Rodríguez-Moñino , Madrid: Real Academia Española, 1958, y Suplemento al “Cancionero General” de Hernando del Castillo (Valencia, 1511), que contiene todas las poesías que no figuran en la primera edición y fueron añadidas desde 1514 hasta 1557. Publícalas con una introducción D. Antonio Rodríguez-Moñino , Valencia: Castalia, 1959. Rodríguez-Moñino dedicó atención específica a otros Quattrocento songbooks: "On the Cancionero de Baena : two bibliographical notes, HR, XXVII (1959), 139-49, at other times, data from literature investigations have allowed other researchers to illuminate dark areas cancioneril lives of other compilations, vid. for example, Juan Carlos Conde and Victor Infantes, "New data on an old story: the Cancionero de Oñate -Castañeda and their owners", forthcoming in the Tribute to the memory of Brian Dutton . Le Gentil published the largest study of all hitherto existing on cancioneril English poetry: La poésie lyrique espagnole et portugaise à la fin du Moyen Âge , Rennes: Plihon, 1949-1953, 2 vols. Azaceta gave us several editions of songbooks: The Cancionero de Gallardo, Madrid: CSIC, 1962; Cancionero de Juan Alfonso de Baena , Madrid: CSIC, 1966, 3 vols.; Cancionero de Juan Fernandez de Íxar , Madrid : CSIC, 1956, 2 vols. A must Aubrun edition d'anglais Le Chansonnier Herberay Dessessart (XVe siècle) , Bordeaux: Féret et fils, 1951. [Back]

[5] Durham: University of Durham (Durham Modern Languages \u200b\u200bSeries), 1981. Among previous articles highlight some as important as "Towards an understanding and appreciation of the songs from the Cancionero General of 1511", Philology, XIII (1968-69), 361-81 and "The evasion of the reader: an action unheard of cancioneril poetry "in Proceedings of the Seventh Congress of the International Association of English scholars held in Venice from 25 to 30 August 1980 , ed. Giuseppe Bellini (Rome: Bulzoni, 1982), II, pp. 1047-52. [Back]

[6] Index Catalogue of the fifteenth century poetry cancioneril , Madison: HSMS, 1982, 2 volumes in 1 vol. The lyrics of the fifteenth century (c.1360 - 1520) , Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca (English Library of the fifteenth century), 1990-1991, 7 vols. folio.

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[7] Cancionero de la Catedral de Segovia. Castilian poems , ed. Joaquín González Cuenca, Ciudad Real: Museum of Ciudad Real, 1980; Estúñiga Songbook, ed. Manuel and Elena Alvar, Zaragoza: Institution Fernando el Catolico, 1981; Estúñiga Songbook, ed. Nicasio Salvador Miguel, Madrid: Alhambra, 1987; The Song of the Marquis of Santillana Toledo , ed. José Luis Pérez López, Toledo: Caja de Toledo, Cultural Works, 1989; Songbook Oñate-Castañeda, ed. Dorothy Sherman Severin, introd. Michel Garcia, Madison: HSMS, 1990; Cancionero de Baena, ed. Brian Dutton and Joaquín González Cuenca, Madrid: Visor Books, 1993. [Back]

[8] Lope de Stúñiga, Poems, ed. Jeanne Battesti-Pelegrin, Aix-en-Provence: Université de Provence, 1982 (a complement to its monumental Lope de Stúñiga, recherches sur la poésie anglaise au XVe siècle, Aix-en-Provence: Université de Provence, 1982); María Jesús Díez Garretas, The literary works of Fernando de la Torre , Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, 1983, Anton de Montoro, Cancionero, ed. Francisco Cantera Burgos and Carlos Reel Parrondo, Madrid: Editora Nacional, 1984; María Jesús Díez Garretas, poetry Ferran Sanchez Calavera, Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, 1989; But Guillén de Segovia, poetic work, ed. Carlos Moreno Hernández, Madrid: English University Foundation, 1989; G. Caravaggi, M. von Wunster, G. Mazzocchi, S. Toninelli, Poeti cancioneril sec. XV, L'Aquila-Roma: Japadre Editore, 1986 (includes production of Francis and Luis Bocanegra, Serum, Pedro and Diego de Quiñones, Alonso Pérez de Vivero, Viscount of Altamira and Luis de Vivero), Anton de Montoro, songbook, study ed. Marcella Ciceri and Julio Rodriguez Puértolas, Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca (Recovered Texts, III-IV), 1990. These two bibliographic relationships without any claim to completeness. [Back]

[9] Collection of poems by an unreleased song of the fifteenth century in the library of HM King Alfonso XII. With a letter from the Hon. D. Manuel Cañete, English Academy, and a foreword, notes and appendix by A. Nieva Gómez Pérez , Madrid: Typography Alfredo Alonso, 1884; El Cancionero de Palacio (Manuscript No. 594) , ed. Miles Francisca Vendrell, Barcelona: CSIC, 1954, Dutton, Song ..., op. cit. , IV, pp. 84-179. Some of the compositions contained in the Cancionero de Palacio had seen the light in the notes to the Marquis of Pidal's edition illustrated Cancionero de Baena (Madrid: Rivadeneyra, 1851), pp. 639-702. Not always been identified Nieva Gómez Pérez editing the Cancionero de Palacio : to this may contribute not only their partial character (their editor has chosen to make the press only unpublished poems, cf . P. 307) but also the management of the order edited alphabetical order of authors. The identification Vendrell (ed.cit., P. 16), Dutton does not mention it when describing the manuscript ( Song ..., op. Cit. , IV, p. 84: does mention of Vendrell and Alvarez Pellet, and in preparation), but identified with SA7 (acronym that identifies our Songbook ) in the bibliography which closes his Cancionero ( op. cit. , t. VII, p. 647). [Back]

[10] take these appointments Introduction to Brian Dutton Song ..., op. cit. , I, p. vi. [Back]

[11] are the words of María Isabel Toro Pascua, editor of the article "Cancionero de Palacio" in Dictionary of English and Latin American Literature , dir. Ricardo Gullón (Madrid: Alianza, 1993), I, p. 265 b . [Back]

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[ Text offered here, with the inevitable traces of the oral presentation, is that, under same title , presented at the Scientific Meeting Castilian-Leonese of Textual Criticism: From Papyrus to Internet , organized by the Luso-Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies and the Interuniversity Institute for the Study of Latin America and Portugal, and by naming them, of course, appoint Fradejas José Manuel Rueda, a good friend and a few years, whom I thank here the invitation to participate in this event, which happened on the Faculty of Arts, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, March 4, 1999. It is but a bagatelle , and considering that most students shared sessions with the likes of Alberto Blecua and David Hook. In any case, I hope to entertain rather perociosos readers, even if only confession I make of my initiation into the world of textual criticism and circumstances.]

will notice you as a perceptive audience are that this title has a clear veste parody, funny, no, I will not refer to the psalmist, nor the splendid novel by Gustavo Martín Garzo (since we are on their land), will soon understand what lies beneath these two references . But let me justify that joke before, this parody. Solemnly vindicated a paradox- and the need to involve the public mood, iocunditas to ecdotics chores. Militia est , is too well known, vita hominis super terram , and nobody will deny that much more if such homo, or such mulier, is among the tasks that mark the existence of an edition clothing critical. Thus, if we are to live for two days and nights of these days we are going to go blank wondering about this variant irreducible or erratic behavior of this branch of the tradition that is so annoying and intrusive as a nationalist politician well come a little humor to temper so tasteless panorama.

And this is no claim here that I do now pointless, but I welcome you to a certain extent, to a certain temperament, with a distinguished record in the field of textual criticism . How can we forget that statement of Alfred Housman, conspicuous scholar and editor of classical texts distinguished poet, a critic textual deep in chores was not so much a transcript of Newton observing planetary rotations, but rather resembled a pooch looking for fleas ? Who can forget that haunting allusion to exclusive circle of hell philologists evil present in the textual criticism Manual Alberto Blecua (p. 153)? How to erase from memory the formula itself Blecua proposed for cases in which a textual tradition refuses to be subject to conceptualizing, outlining a systematic or? I remember: "In this situation, the publisher can get desperate, devoted to other tasks or trying to carry out the least bad of the possible issues" (p. 106): only he who has made a critical edition is able to appreciate the irony acid , the black humor that this assertion holds. Healthy mood and healthy detachment, whose praise and place in another place at another time- of which Blecua also refers to allude to his Manual as a future source of havoc in the field of nursing. While the teacher walked right Blecua then, for you at this time attending the penultimate of these ravages. Yes, let me say that my appreciation of these things arises precisely from ecdotics of Blecua Manual, or if I should be more precise, a seminar in the course of the third edition of the Golden Age of the Autonomous University of Madrid, seminar on the problems of the editorial and publishing Literary Republic de Saavedra Fajardo taught by Alberto before a meager crowd, the speaker- Love heat bar professors from our faculty. There Alberto, among stemmata and liquor store, I inoculated the condition (as close to the fans) for textual criticism, riveted when a friend with whom I shared my undergraduate gave me in the fall of that year the Manual of Blecua be read convinced me that my dissertation would be a critical issue, and it was. It's been irreparable, 16. The memory of that friend just endures the dog-eared copy of Manual. And yet another passion, ecdotics, lives, and also the well-established belief that can not be a god send a stemma without being able to malta a dozen years or distilled in Kentucky, both daughters of a spring afternoon in the Independent, a privilege that I must always Alberto Blecua.

But do not think I will follow these paths. I can not because I'm here to talk about textual criticism, and so far what he was doing was to produce a text that is too close to me as appropriate to their exposure here. And do not say because I do not comply (which do not comply) with requirements in terms of honor, power, prestige, age or reputation that compelled them to you without mercy to listen to my nonsense, no: I say this because if something is inappropriate for someone connected to the ecdotics that is, above all, and above all, provide texts that are his own. The condition of the textual critic, publisher, and thus we move on, is to live forever in a foreign text within a text of others and, if you ask me for a foreign text. The editor is installed on it and contributed decisively to the life of the text on which they work, fixing their lessons, their language, letter, against the ravages of time and the carelessness of copyists, printers and, sometimes, predecessors ecdotics paupers. That is to say-and this lies its importance in the world of letters, the text editor projects critical to the future, life goes on and dissemination, bringing its presence one step more or less living in the literary and cultural history, not to infiltrate itself as individual or as a scholar, in the least in this text. But in truth I do not care here and now that progressive dimension, that dimension of future projected textual critic in dealing with other texts, but on the contrary, the vector that will occupy my attention here is the opposite, straightening to the last time the regression line in the life of the texts. Much can, and should, the critical enter text by such galleries to ensure that the text is the text willing to be last.

specifically on what interests me here is to draw attention to what is the work of the textual critic, the philologist, deepening inevitable in the deeper layers (forgive the redundancy , and there you will understand the first part of the title of my paper) of the text in which they work. Indeed, as we know those we faced a critical edition of medieval and Renaissance texts (ie, texts in which mechanisms production and historical circumstances which prevailed write values \u200b\u200bsuch as those of imitatio and respect for auctore ), in many cases it is impossible to solve the challenge of editing a text raises regardless sources (and will explain the second part of my degree) on which the text is formed, imitated built. This is widely known, especially taken into account with every opportunity and justice in cases of translation and romance, where the original translated text is an essential reference. Thus, the person responsible for a critical edition is in many cases, and, of course, always in its most finished, a work which, inevitably pointing to the future of the textual life of the published work, it must necessarily sink its roots in the past layers of text life, even in previous layers or prior to the drafting of the text itself, stadiums geno -text (by reusing the terminology coined by Kristeva few years ago), linked to sources and models. This is an indisputable truth, and always taken into account in the philological works, especially if the texts grouped under the pre-Romantic literary paradigms, ie those in which terms such as imitatio , auctoritas , aemulatio , maintain in full force and online master of the literary system.

However, it is necessary to take into account something that is not always taken into consideration. When a scholar insists on editing some text above fall under the casuistry, and demand should show the same acuity ecdotics regarding the alleged sources of the text you are applying to the text under her care. In other words, it is necessary to consider the sources of the text on which we are dealing with a critical mind, from the textual point of view, and it is imperative to be very familiar with the particularities of tradition text of those texts that we know or suspect are below, and as direct sources, and as models, and translation as a text object, including text, we want to edit.

For translations this has been highlighted so irrefutable, and an important area of \u200b\u200bmedieval culture, that of biblical translations and romance, by Mrs. Margherita Morreale. His research about the importance of identifying the underlying model in the edition and study of medieval biblical romances are exemplary, and clear example of the phenomenon that I wish to illustrate here. Procedure and methodology have recently shown their revenues to the research work as important as the draft edition of the General History undertaken by teachers and Pedro Sánchez-Prieto Bautista Horcajada. In the same vein, José Manuel Lucía has commented on this same encounter a very similar case regarding the Knight Zifar that transcends the field of translation and affect the scope of the model or the source followed by an author.

The above cases show that when it comes to sources, when it comes to models, when it comes to texts underlying the study or edit text, you must have a historical consciousness would say-and-concrete and peculiarizada of the underlying text. That is, if we consider the Bible as a source, we should not think of the Bible as the textual abstract entity, but in particular, this manuscript is a tall order-or family or review of biblical textual tradition, through studies about the tradition of the text or crawls in libraries in search of manuscripts with useful data source, we know that was the closest, or immediately to the scene, the author or the intellectual environment that we occupy.

My intention here is to bring several cases, especially one of them, highlighting the need for the textual critic and, in general, the philologist, to have knowledge depth of the particular text that has the subtext, the model or the source, call it what you like, "the text on which we work.

Consider the former case, which leads us to the work of, or sponsored by Alfonso X. In Part of General estoria , Book XI, Chapter 39, entitled "the dating of this city and a few ential Daquella land," he adorns the story of Exodus, the narrative spine here, with various news and encyclopedic geographic nature of the populations on Ethiopian land. In the news we read: "other ential that the Garamantes Gnostic, and others Angil and other troglodytes" [1] ; little later, "the non aoran Angil another god sinon alos Spiritos of Hell "(ibid. , p. 311 b ). The difficulty of these passages is that we have no reference to what are these Angil or Angil displayed in the text. It is necessary to make an inquiry about the text underlying the passage.

is not difficult to know the source of this passage is Pliny, first by the massive presence of his Historia Naturalis as a source of such data over of the Middle Ages, second, and more conclusively, because the text of the General History submitted shortly before the repetidísimo "and second counts Plinio ...". If we go to pages Historia Naturalis found in the book V, chap. viii, § § 43 and 45 the following passages: "usque ad et Garamantas Augilasque Troglodytes", "tantum inferos Augilae colunt." That is, the people he referred to the General History is that of Augila Augila or (this second form is a direct descendant of the second of the loci cited Pliny, with the diphthong ae nominative plural reduced to shrink - and - and the plural morpheme Castilian). We believe that in the example of Pliny handled by compilers General History of was a mistake I have made a study of the textual tradition of Pliny, of course, "or more likely that the proximity iconic graphemes-u-y-n-in Gothic script is to blame a misunderstanding of the adjective. Only after these considerations, the editor can make an informed decision about the text you edit or notes. As well as the emergence of voice in the General History , we have other texts presented in its canonical form, and the translation of the Historia Naturalis Jeronimo Huerta (ed. 1624, I, 168b and, all, 171, where our tickets are translated with Augila forms and Augila ) or the Apologetic History of the Indies of Fray Bartolome de las Casas (which has the form Augila ) or even, and slavishly attached to Pliny, Jorge Luis Borges in The Aleph : "We went through the land of the troglodytes, who devour snakes of [...], the Augila , who only venerate the Tartarus" (ed. Madrid, 1974, p. 9).

take another case belonging to the General History , more specifically its Part Four, and more precisely still, that section of it which is designed for the telling of the story of Alexander the Great. We can easily read through the work of Thomas Rolán and Pilar González Suárez-Somonte Saquero, and editing it [2] , p. 145, read the following passage:

Ondra Passada the wedding, Alexandre de Perssia came with his army of the Macedonians town hall and the crowd of those Perssia, and entered and fought against Yrcania very Rezi and conquirió d'yrcanos that time to the Anglo ea .

surprising as British presence in place so dissonant. You have to turn to for clarity of the text underlying our passage is none other than the Preliis History, recession J 2: In the Latin text of this work provided by teachers and Saquero Rolán González ( ed. cit. , p. 112) we read: "Post hec vero Congregate exercitu Hyrcaniam et est Persarum free user ingressus struggling subegit Hyrcanus et Mangles." We think that the compiler alfonsí misread his source, but there is another possibility more explanatory power of our way Anglos. In the critical apparatus to the Latin text and Gonzalez offered Saquero Rolán ( ed. Cit. , p. 225) has a large number of manuscripts-eight, exactly, read there " Anglos" and not mangroves. Recourse to the sources we read text makes clear that we deal with, and in turn provides us with reasons to support our decisions as editors. In this latter case, moreover, if we get to the bottom of the problem, we note that the adjective mangroves present in Preliis History is also very likely and in turn, reading from a mistake: when Paul Orosius refers to these people, how we find is another, "Alexander Magnus [...] Igitur et Hyrcanus subegit Mardo ( History, 3, 18 , 187), and as pointed out by teachers and Saquero Rolán in various places in both the recession J ¹ of History Preliis -from which derives the recession J 2 - as the very recession J 2, and is in a much greater extent, taking material from Orosius ( ed. cit. , pp. 17-18). Like Chinese boxes or a matrioschkas Russian text in which we work, edit the text leads us to another within text (rather than less) to build, and that leads us to another subtext subtext, double subordination to the first, also must be considered in all its textual complexity to successfully solving the problems of the text is the subject of our activity ecdotics.

will comment more than one case demonstrates the need to take into account these underlying subtexts or texts at the time not only to edit and correct a text but also in being able to account for their peculiarities philological, lexical or linguistic. The following case is, as above, fall within the dynamics of translation in a generic, but shows the case mix that we found time to address the sources of certain passages of original text.

The first order of Celestina within the misogynistic spin that spits Sempronio Callisto, read the following words:

For them it is said: 'weapon of the devil, head of sin, destruición of paradise. " Is not as prayed on the Feast of St. John, do he says: 'the women and wine hazen to deny ombres', do he says:' This is the woman, an old evil that Adam fell from the delights of paradise, is the umano lineage put in hell this despised prophet Elijah ', etc.? [3] .

Some of the various editors and exegetes of the work have noted the passage, especially to indicate their sources. And this in the wake of Castro Guisasola, which identified the last of the transcript quotes the passage ('this is the woman ... this despised prophet Elijah') with the sermon CXXVII Crisólogo of San Pedro, as is once attributed to St. John Chrysostom [4] . But none of them has been spared in the sense that the passage has the word malice. For malice here has two main values \u200b\u200bthat shows in the age half-and-nowadays: that of 'evil, bad or evil quality' and 'action evil or mischievous', in the light of context, leaving little room for doubt, malice it in the text said something like 'evil creature. " This value, as far as I can ascertain, is not recorded in any other medieval Castilian text [5] .

How then to explain the peculiar value or use of malice transcribed in the text above? Let us turn for answers al texto fuente. Castro Guisasola transcribe el siguiente fragmento del sermón cxxvii del Crisólogo:

Haec est mulieris antiqua malitia, quae Adam eiecit de paradisii deliciis; haec caelestes homines facit terrenos, haec humanum genus mersit in infernum.

No hay nada en el texto transcrito que explique el peculiar uso de malicia , antes bien, nos hallamos ante la constatación de que el autor de esas líneas —Rojas o quien fuere— cometió un error de traducción, vertiendo “esta es la mujer, antigua malicia” donde debió haber leído “esta es la antigua malicia de la mujer...”.

Salta a la vista que esa explicación de lo que hallamos en este pasaje de Celestina , el error de traducción de un triste genitivo, no es demasiado convincente. Una somera indagación en la vida textual del sermón de Pedro Crisólogo disipa esa posibilidad, tan poco halagadora para Rojas o el “antiguo autor”. La magnífica critical edition of the work of Crisólogo homiletics conducted by Alexandre Olivier allows us to appreciate that some representatives of the textual tradition of that sermon CXXVII recorded a variant of the utmost importance for our purpose:

Haec est mulier malitia antiqua, quae Adam eiecit of paradisii deliciis [6] .

In view of this quotation, it is obvious that the writer of the passage of the Celestine Used we are analyzing a representative of the textual tradition of Peter's sermon Crisólogo closely connected to the carriers of lectio transcribed, which explains perfectly through a literal translation of the text Celestina. Therefore, the value of malice in Celestina would be given by a cast of a specific lectio the text of the font used, and which shall become a true hapax legomenon semantics. It seems that a linguistic fact of that caliber should have been scored by a scholar engaged in setting and illustrate the text, however, none of the editions of the Celestina I know it has echoed this. Without knowledge of the peculiarities of the underlying text, let me corollary, there is no possibility of achieving a proper evaluative knowledge we work text [7] .

finish now. Now you will understand better the title of my speech, and probably also the need for such an appeal to a certain iocunditas for ecdotics work. Inquiries about the need for which my attention is not exactly easy or simple or fun, are also rewarding most of the time. But I sincerely believe that when a scholar worthy of that designation decides to undertake the edition of a medieval or Renaissance text, you must keep in mind that such operations ecdotics on the text that deals are in need of other strata ecdotics unprecedented, for the text or texts that are inscribed within the letter of his own. Only with this descent into hell, with the mise en abîme , we may be safe to operate with few guarantees of our decisions.

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[1] Alfonso the Wise, General History. Part . Ed Solalinde AG (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Históricos, 1930), p. 311 ª . [Back]

[2] Thomas Rolán and Pilar González Suárez-Somonte Saquero, Alfonso X El Sabio, "the fictionalized story of Alexander the Great." Accompanied by the original Latin edition of "Story of Preliis" (J recession 2) , Madrid: Universidad Complutense, 1982. [Back]

[3] Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina . Comedy and Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea . Edited by Peter E. Russell. Classic Castalia, 191 (Madrid: Castalia, 1993), p. 227. [Back]

[4] F [Lorentino] Castro Guisasola, Observations on the literary sources of "La Celestina" (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Históricos [Schedules of Magazine English Philology, V], 1924), pp. 110-111. [Back]

[5] No case is to consult the CD-ROMs ADMYTE (Digital Archive English Manuscripts and Texts, Madrid: Micronet, 1992). [2007 Note: Now available for safety, Cord, the website of the Royal English Academy ( www.rae.es ) consist not comparable to the results there is value in malice Celestina text before us.] [Back]

[6] Sancti Petri Chrisologi collectio sermonvm Felice sermonibus extravagantibus episcopo Parata adiectis, pars III . Ed Alexandre Olivier. Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, xxiv b (Turnhout: Brepols, 1982), p.786. [Back]

[7] [2007 Note: A greatly expanded version of these paragraphs devoted to this peculiarity of the text of the Celestina saw light under the title "This is the wife, the former malice" means a semantic hapax Celestina, "Journal of English Studies , lxxx (2000), 193-199.] [Back]