The "velha" who was a "manceba"

Contributions to a new interpretative hypothesis of the cantiga "Direi-vos ora que oi dizer" e Joan Vaasquiz de Talaveira (B 1545)

Authors

  • Bieito Arias Freixedo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/abriu2022.11.8

Keywords:

Cantigas de escarnio, aequivocatio, old age, Joan Vaasquiz de Talaveira, Maria Leve

Abstract

In the comments that accompany the successive editions and studies of the Cantiga de Escarnio Direi-vos ora que oi dizer (UC 1564=Tav. 81,4; B 1545;) attributed to Joan Vaasquiz de Talaveira, repeated reference is made to the lesbian relationships that the soldadeira main character, Maria Leve, would maintain with a maid of hers, and it is emphasized that this is one of the main reasons on which the satire is based. In this work we intend to demonstrate that the basis of the satire is different, and that, if the homosexual component has a place in the inter- pretation of this text, it will be only in a very secondary way. At the same time, we will analyze other difficult-to-solve textual issues that the Cantiga presents and
that hinder its full interpretation.

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Published

2022-10-15

How to Cite

Arias Freixedo, B. (2022). The "velha" who was a "manceba": Contributions to a new interpretative hypothesis of the cantiga "Direi-vos ora que oi dizer" e Joan Vaasquiz de Talaveira (B 1545). Abriu: Estudos De Textualidade Do Brasil, Galicia E Portugal, (11), 189–220. https://doi.org/10.1344/abriu2022.11.8

Issue

No. 11 (2022): Ecocritics: Words and Images

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MISCELLANY

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