Alguns comentaristes ausiasmarquians. Aproximació a l’estudi de la crítica sobre Ausiàs March en el XIX

Abstract

The article reviews and explores some of the nineteenth century scholars who write about Ausiàs March’s poetry. The critical tradition on Ausias March dates back to the years after his death and the works that were translated by sixteenth century Spanish poets. This activity began to decline in the seventeenth century, but interest in the Valencian poet’s works did not go unnoticed by eighteenth century Spanish bibliographers. In the nineteenth century, romantic ideas and the movement of the Renaixença started studies from a philological point of view. The first critic of March, Joseph Tastu, transcribed some of the manuscripts that preserve the poet’s work. After that, scholars like Milá y Fontanals, Rubió i Ors, Menéndez Pelayo, Rubió i Lluch, Torras y Bages read March’s works as a philosophical reflection of love, not without conceptual difficulty.