Catalan poet Jacint Verdaguer at the Roman Arcadia academy

Abstract

The Catalan poet Jacint Verdaguer composed bucolic works during his youth, and described the Vic Plain according to the characteristics of the locus amoenus and the Arcadia, as described by Roman poet Virgil. In this paper we are going to study the history of his admission to the Roman Arcadia, thanks to his friend and poet Jaume Collel.

Keywords

• l'Arcadia Romana
• Locus amoenus
• poesia catalana
• tradició clàssica
• Jacint Verdaguer
• Jaume Collell