Ausiàs March

Mossèn Ausiàs March (c. 1397 in Gandia, Valencia Province; † March 3, 1459 in Valencia ) was a Valencian writer and Knight of the late Middle Ages. He is considered one of the most important poets of the Valencian language.

Life

Ausiàs March was around 1397 probably in Gandia ( Valencia mention other sources ), the son of the poet and knight Pere March and Lionor Ripoll was born into a wealthy family who had risen from the middle class to knighthood. In 1415, two years after his father's death, he went to the Valencian royal court, where he was knighted in 1419. From 1420 to 1424 he participated in the campaigns that took Alfonso V of Aragon in the Mediterranean, including Corsica and North Africa. The king thanked him his services by making him the masters of those towns that his father had once managed. He also appointed him master falconer of the Valencian royal court, a position which meant more privileges. The first time married March 1437th His wife was Isabell Martorell, the sister of Joanot Martorell, author of Tirant lo Blanc. Shortly after her death he married in 1443 Joana Escorna. She died 1454th Both women are buried in Sant Jeronimo de Cotalba monastery. Both marriages were childless, from March's Testament, however, shows that he had at least five illegitimate children. Ausiàs March died on March 3, 1459 in Valencia.

Work

March's work consists of 128 poems with more than 10,000 verses, which are divided from the literature in thematic cycles. These cycles

• Els cants d' amor ( The Songs of Love )
• Els cants de mort ( The Songs of Death)
• El cant espiritual ( Spiritual Song )

Language

While the poets of his time at the Trobadordichtung oriented and their work in the language of poetry, the Altokzitanischen written, to March served as the first poet ever his Catalan language.

Style

Stylistically, however, remained arrested March of Trobadordichtung. It mainly used cross rhymes in achtversigen stanzas with Nick after the fourth verse But the hugging rhyme ( ABBACDDC EFFEGHHG ) is amplified before.

Topic

Thematically, March distanced apparent from the Trobadordichtung, which he regarded as aloof and unworldly. His poetry is a constant interaction with the human existence, and much of his work revolves around his own life and personal experiences. Clearly originated in the " Els cants de mort", the short time after the death of his second wife's.

Also missing in March the typical troubadour poet idealization of a woman as she expressed in courtly love. For him, women are human beings with strengths and weaknesses, virtues and vices. Accordingly, in his poetry the description of a beloved woman not exhausted by the praise of her beauty, but also focuses on their character traits.

Importance

Ausiàs March's poetry overcame the then applicable standards of the Trobadordichtung and seemed to many contemporaries sincere, live closer, lifted less than this. The already made ​​him a highly regarded poet in his lifetime, although his work printed for the first time appeared in 1539. He influenced many great writers of the Iberian Peninsula, including Garcilaso de la Vega and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. According to some literary scholars is the Catalan literature of the 16th century mainly from attempts to imitate Ausiàs March's poetry.