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«Atiérrame el porvenir»: la Confesión de Juan Fernández de Heredia

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    Statement of Responsibility:
    D'Agostino, Maria
    Main Author:
    D'Agostino, Maria

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    Format:
    Journal article
    Language:
    Spanish; Castilian
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    text (article)
    Published:
    Universitat d´Alacant / Universidad de Alicante 2013
    In:
    Revista de Cancioneros impresos y manuscritos ISSN 2254-7444 Nº. 2, 2013, pags. 1-30
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    This article is the first part of a forthcoming and comprehensive study of the religious writings by Juan Fernández de Heredia. Although he was a key figure at the court of Germana de Foix, his poetry has only been recently the focus of in-depth studies, and his religious production remains somewhat unexplored. Fernández de Heredia's devotional texts are less numerous than the ones he wrote on love and other traditional topics. However, the religious poems by don Juan were already printed in the first Spanish edition of the Cancionero de Montemayor, issued in 1556, therefore six years before the princeps of his Obras, published in 1562. The aim of the present study is to contextualize Heredia's religious texts and, above all, to verify whether his devout poetry can be compared with the contemporary production of the same subject matter or rather -as I already underscored for Heredia's love poems- it presents noteworthy differences that can be linked to the great tradition of the Valencian lyrics, whose climax is represented by Ausiàs March. The article also analyses in detail the Exhortando la obligación que el cristiano tiene de confesar y lo que debe hacer -known as the Confesión. It demonstrates once more how Juan Fernández de Heredia merges various poetic traditions in his verses and also looks at works by March in this instance, particularly at the Cant espiritual. This poem shares with the Confesión by Heredia the dramatic theme of contritio and the difficulty to experience a sincere penitence. By juxtaposing the two texts it is possible to detect the direct source of Heredia's text.


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