Chronological list of Early Spanish ballads
SG Morley - Hispanic Review, 1945 - JSTOR
SG Morley
Hispanic Review, 1945•JSTORTHE following is an attempt to list chronologically the earlie Spanish romances known, up to
the year 1511. By" chrono-logically" I mean according to the dates at which they are actuall
extant, not according to the dates at which they may credibly b supposed to have been first
composed.'Undoubtedly my list w be deficient, but I trust it may serve as a check-list for other
scholar to amplify. It supersedes my incidental discussion of the sam subject in The Romanic
Review, 1916, VII, 53-55. 1. 1421 or soon after." Gentil dona, gentil dona,/dona de bell …
the year 1511. By" chrono-logically" I mean according to the dates at which they are actuall
extant, not according to the dates at which they may credibly b supposed to have been first
composed.'Undoubtedly my list w be deficient, but I trust it may serve as a check-list for other
scholar to amplify. It supersedes my incidental discussion of the sam subject in The Romanic
Review, 1916, VII, 53-55. 1. 1421 or soon after." Gentil dona, gentil dona,/dona de bell …
THE following is an attempt to list chronologically the earlie Spanish romances known, up to the year 1511. By" chrono-logically" I mean according to the dates at which they are actuall extant, not according to the dates at which they may credibly b supposed to have been first composed.'Undoubtedly my list w be deficient, but I trust it may serve as a check-list for other scholar to amplify. It supersedes my incidental discussion of the sam subject in The Romanic Review, 1916, VII, 53-55. 1. 1421 or soon after." Gentil dona, gentil dona,/dona de bell parasser." This is the first Spanish version (with some Catalan words) of the well known ballad of the" Gentil dama y el rdstico pastor"(Primavera, no. 145). It is found in a manuscript of th National Library of Florence, not earlier than 1421.2 2. 1440?(Juan Rodriguez died 1450?) Versions of Rosa-florida, Conde Arnaldos, and La hija del rey de Francia (Primavera, 179, 153, 154) are found as by Juan Rodriguez del Padr6n in a
1 The earliest by this latter criterion is without much doubt" Cercada tiene a Baeza," p. 196 of Men6ndez y Pelayo's Antologia de poetas liricos castellanos, vol. IX; it must have been written in 1368 or soon after; see WJ Entwistle, Romancero del Rey don Pedro, in Modern Language Review, 1930, XXV, 307-308. After it would come such ballads as" Moricos, los mis moricos"(1407?)(Wolf, Primavera y flor de romances, no. 71); other fronterizos; and the Serranilla de la Zarzuela (be-fore 1420?), see the just-cited Antologia, IX, 269, and R. Men6ndez Pidal, in Studi medievali, 1906, II, 263-270, and in Bulletin of the MHRA, 1927, I, 9. 2Published by Ezio Levi, Rev. Filol. Esp., 1927, XIV, 134-160. His article was reprinted in revised form in his volume, Motivos hispdnicos, Florencia, 1933, pp. 39-73. On this poem in general see Wolf, Primavera, no. 145; R. Men6ndez Pidal, Flor nueva de romances viejos, segunda edici6n aumentada, Madrid, 1933, p. 293 (the third edition, Buenos Aires, 1941, in the Colecci6n Austral, is a poor reprint of the second, without the music); Leo Spitzer, in Rev. Filol. Esp., 1935, XXII, 153-158; WJ Entwistle, European Balladry, Oxford, 1939, p. 178; etc. I do not know whence Men6ndez Pidal got the" redacci6n estr6fica" that he uses in the Flor nueva.
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