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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_1007
dc.contributor.author	Plagnard Aude
dc.title	«Como la blanca flor o roxo lirio». Variaciones portuguesas sobre el símil épico de la flor cortada
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	The epic simile of the cut flower, frequently used in the Spanish and Portuguese épica culta of the Renaissance, imitates a long Antic and Italian tradition where it illustrated the death of a young warrior in the battlefield. I propose to study three Portuguese occurrences of this simile, imitated from Garcilaso de la Vega’s lyrical and pictorial version (Second Eclogue, 1258-1265). All three break with the tradition by using this image to narrate the violent death of women: the indigenous natives of the Cambay coast killed by the Portuguese, the Christians of the Cambay coast killed by the Turks and Inés de Castro’s murder. In these new contexts, the aim of the simile is no longer to deplore a young hero’s death, but to censure the violent death of innocent women.
dc.relation.ispartof	Library of Rassegna iberistica
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2017-07-03
dc.dateAccepted	2016-04-20
dc.dateSubmitted	2015-08-22
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-164-5/como-la-blanca-flor-o-roxo-lirio/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-163-8/RiB-5-21
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8844
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9360
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-164-5
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-163-8
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Cut flower
dc.subject	Cut flower
dc.subject	Epic poetry
dc.subject	Epic poetry
dc.subject	Homeric simile
dc.subject	Homeric simile
dc.subject	Jerónimo Corte-Real
dc.subject	Jerónimo Corte-Real
dc.subject	Luís de Camões
dc.subject	Luís de Camões

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«Como la blanca flor o roxo lirio»

Variaciones portuguesas sobre el símil épico de la flor cortada

Aude Plagnard Université Paris-Sorbonne – CLEA 3, France

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The epic simile of the cut flower, frequently used in the Spanish and Portuguese épica culta of the Renaissance, imitates a long Antic and Italian tradition where it illustrated the death of a young warrior in the battlefield. I propose to study three Portuguese occurrences of this simile, imitated from Garcilaso de la Vega’s lyrical and pictorial version (Second Eclogue, 1258-1265). All three break with the tradition by using this image to narrate the violent death of women: the indigenous natives of the Cambay coast killed by the Portuguese, the Christians of the Cambay coast killed by the Turks and Inés de Castro’s murder. In these new contexts, the aim of the simile is no longer to deplore a young hero’s death, but to censure the violent death of innocent women.

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April 20, 2016

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Aug. 22, 2015

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978-88-6969-164-5

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978-88-6969-163-8

Keywords: Cut flower • Epic poetry • Jerónimo Corte-Real • Luís de Camões • Homeric simile

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