Abstract
The cancionero of Juan Álvarez Gato, bureaucrat at the service of the Catholic monarchs, is structured around a religious crisis and framed by the poet's sociopolitical success. Cancionero MH2 was compiled toward the end of the poet's life and organized as a life narrative. Various compositions written at different points in the poet's life appear threaded by means of a careful rubricatory apparatus. The narrative thread presents a political and courtly figure that is transformed into a Christian ascetic retired from the world. The biography of Hernado de Talavera ends the codex and functions as the culmination of Álvarez Gato's vital and religious progression. This analysis enables the inquiry into the compilatory nature of the autobiographical narrative of the cancionero as well as its use as a document valued as notarial instrumentum.
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