Lecturae Tropatorum (May 2015)

Arnaut de Tintinhac, "Lo joi comens’en un bel mes" (BdT 34.2)

  • Caterina Menichetti

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8
pp. 1 – 37

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The paper proposes a new critical edition, followed by a comment, of "Lo joi comens’en un bel mes", the text by Arnaut de Tintinhac with the widest manuscript tradition. The vers, which can be dated to the middle of the 12th century, consists in a broad reflection on fin’amor, presented as a discipline leading to individual refinement requiring of the lover the right behaviour and the ability to understand correctly. The paper presents a close reading of "Lo joi comensa", in which the methods of literary investigation as well as critical edition are brought into play. The poem’s manuscript tradition is quite corrupt: the vers is complete in only four manuscripts (CERc), which nonetheless offer two different stanza orders and a large amount of indifferent variants. The new edition is based on the western tradition represented by CER, but systematically confronts this with the text transmitted by the c-DaIK group.

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