El maestro de la Troya polimétrica: una lectura

Abstract

It only remains a fragment of the Spanish Historia troyana polimetrica (1270). Beautiful derelict, remarked Ramon Menendez Pidal. It is a remarkable text in three research domains: the Trojan cycle in European medieval literatures; the history of Spanish metrics; Spanish medieval literature in general. In terms of metrics, the text allows itself a surprising freedom in the use of patterns and their combination. Even more: it combines prose with verse, which result is the genre called prosimetrum. The anonymous author must have been a cultivated clergy, provided of a personality of his own and peculiar criteria; when he translated the manuscript of Benoit de Sainte-Maure, he recreated it. This paper of Alberto Paredes, poet and modern philologist, proposes a fresh approach to the text, showing how it is nurtured with originality and literary richness.