Spanish-Catalan literary historian
In this
Spanish name , the first or paternal
surname is
de Riquer and the second or maternal family name is
Morera .
Martí de Riquer i Morera, 8th Count of Casa Dávalos (Catalan pronunciation:
[məɾˈti ðə riˈkej muˈɾeɾə] ,
Spanish : Martín de Riquer y Morera ) (3 May 1914
[1] – 17 September 2013)
[2] was a Spanish literary historian and
Romance
philologist , a recognised international authority in the field. His writing career lasted from 1934 to 2004. He was also a nobleman and
Grandee of Spain .
[3]
Early life
Riquer was born in
Barcelona in 1914, the grandson of
Alexandre de Riquer i Ynglada , from whom he rehabilitated the noble title
Count of Casa Dávalos in 1956, because it was in situation of expiry. He fought in the
Spanish Civil War for the
Nationalist side, in the
Terç de Requetès de la Mare de Déu de Montserrat and later the
propaganda service under
Dionisio Ridruejo 's direction.
In 1977, he was appointed a
senator in the
Cortes Constituyentes by the Spanish king
Juan Carlos I . He was also appointed chief of the Romance literature section of the
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC, "Superior Council of Scientific Investigations").
Scholarship and recognition
Riquer was a member of the
Real Academia Española since 1965, president of the
Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona , and corresponding member of numerous foreign institutions. He was the
emeritus chair of Literaturas Románicas (Romance Literature) at the
University of Barcelona , which he held from 1950 to 1984. He was
viceroy of the university in 1965–6 and viceroy of the
Autonomous University of Barcelona from 1970 to 1976. He is the founder and honorary president of the
Sociedad Roncesvals , dedicated to the study of the
chanson de geste and
cantar de gesta .
Among the Romance languages Riquer studied were
Occitan ,
French , Spanish, and Catalan. Specifically, he has written important and influential works on
Don Quixote , the chansons de geste, the
medieval novel (notably
Amadis de Gaula ), the
troubadours ,
courtly love , the
history of Catalan literature , and the social phenomenon of the
knight-errant . He studied the influence of
Ausiàs March ,
Juan Boscan , and the work of
Miguel de Cervantes . Perhaps his most ambitious work was Historia de la Literatura Universal ("History of Universal Literature"), in collaboration
José María Valverde . He and his disciple
Albert Hauf were the most prominent authorities on courtly love in Spain in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Riquer was the recipient of many honours later in life. In 1962 he received the
Premio March de Cataluña , in 1990 he received the fourth
Menéndez Pelayo International Prize , in 1991 he received the
Premio Nacional de Ensayo from the Ministry of Culture for his monograph Aproximació al Tirant lo Blanc , in 1997 he received the
Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Ciencias Sociales , in 1999 he received the
Premi Lletra d'Or for Quinze generacions d'una família catalana , and in 2000 he received the
Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas . He was elected to the
American Philosophical Society in 1975.
[4] In 2005 he was made a
Grandee of Spain by
King Juan Carlos I . He received
Doctor honoris causa degrees (honorary doctor) from the
University of Rome and the
University of Liège .
Published works
His own
L'humanisme català (1388–1494) Barcelona: Barcino, 1934.
Humanisme i decadència en les lletres catalanes Barcelona: Revista de Catalunya, 1934.
Comentaris crítics sobre clàssics catalans Barcelona: Barcino, 1935.
Manual de heráldica española Barcelona: Apolo, 1942.
La lírica de los trovadores Madrid: CSIC, 1948.
Los cantares de gesta franceses , Madrid: Gredos, 1952.
Historia de la literatura catalana , Barcelona: Ariel, 1964–1966.
Historia de la literatura universal , Barcelona: Noguer, 1957–1959. (in collaboration with
José María Valverde )
Caballeros andantes españoles , Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1967.
L'arnès del cavaller: armes i armadures catalanes medievals , Barcelona: Ariel, 1968.
Cavalleria: fra realtà e letteratura nel Quattrocento , Bari: Adriatica, 1968.
El combate imaginario: Las cartas de batalla de Joanot Martorell , Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1972. (in collaboration with
Mario Vargas Llosa )
Los trovadores , Barcelona: Planeta, 1975.
Heràldica catalana des de l'any 1150 al 1550 , Barcelona: Quaderns Crema, 1983.
Vida i aventures de don Pero Maça , Barcelona: Quaderns Crema, 1984.
Heráldica Castellana en tiempos de los Reyes Católicos , Quaderns Crema, 1986.
Estudios sobre el Amadís de Gaula , Barcelona: Sirmio, 1987.
Cervantes, Passamonte y Avellaneda , Barcelona: Sirmio, 1988.
Cervantes en Barcelona , Barcelona: Sirmio, 1989.
Aproximació al Tirant lo Blanc , Quaderns Crema, 1990
Tirant lo Blanch, Novela de historia y de ficción , Barcelona: Sirmio, 1992.
Les poesies del trobador Guillem de Berguedà , Barcelona: Quaderns Crema, 1996.
Quinze generacions d'una família catalana , Barcelona: Quaderns Crema, 1998.
Llegendes històriques catalanes , Barcelona: Quaderns Crema, 2000.
Para leer a Cervantes , Barcelona: Acantilado, 2003.
Vida y amores de los trovadores y sus damas , Barcelona: Acantilado, 2004.
Edited works
Antoni Canals , Scipió e Anibal. De providència. De arra de ànima , Barcelona: Barcino, 1935.
Jordi de Sant Jordi , Poesies , Barcelona: Catalònia, 1935.
Bernatz de Ventadorn , Poesías , Barcelona: Yunque, 1940.
Sebastián de Covarrubias ,
Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española , Barcelona: Horta, 1943.
Miguel de Cervantes , Don Quijote de la Mancha , Barcelona: Juventud, 1944.
Jacinto Verdaguer , L'Atlàntida , Barcelona: Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, 1946.
Pero Martínez , Obras , Barcelona: CSIC, 1946.
Cerverí de Girona , El trovador Cerverí de Girona , Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 1946.
Joanot Martorell ,
Martí Joan de Galba , Tirant lo Blanc , Barcelona: Selecta, 1947.
Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan de Galba, Tirante el Blanco: traducción castellana de 1511 , Barcelona: Asociación de Bibliófilos, 1947–1949.
Andreu Febrer , Poesies , Barcelona: Barcino, 1951.
Gilabert de Próixita , Poesies , Barcelona: Barcino, 1954.
Juan Boscán , Obras poéticas , Barcelona: Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, Universitat de Barcelona, 1957. (with
Antoni Comas and
Joaquim Moles )
Guillem de Berguedà , Guillem de Berguedà , Espluga de Francolí: Abadia de Poblet, 1971.
Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda , Don Quijote de la Mancha , Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1972.
Fernando de Rojas , La celestina , Madrid: Alfaguara, 1974.
Chrétien de Troyes , Li contes del graal , Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1961.
Alan Chartier , La belle dame sans merci , Barcelona: Quaderns Crema, 1983.
La chanson de Roland. El Cantar de Roldán y el Roncesvalles navarro , Barcelona: El Festín de Esopo, 1983.
Arnaut Daniel , Poesías , Barcelona: Quaderns Crema, 1994.
Notes
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[1] He was elected in 1849 but never took the seat and it was declared vacant; [2] He was elected in 1894 but never took the seat
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