'Paine pour joie': la divisa d'un príncep de la tardana edat mitjana
The motto arose at the end of the fourteenth century in order to overcome the limitations of the heraldic system, subject to a too rigid code and conceived exclusively to transfer dynastic and lineage concepts. This study proposes a careful dissection of the authentic literary and aesthetic «alter e...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2020 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repository: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:10256/18959 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10256/18959 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Heràldica Heraldry |
| Summary: | The motto arose at the end of the fourteenth century in order to overcome the limitations of the heraldic system, subject to a too rigid code and conceived exclusively to transfer dynastic and lineage concepts. This study proposes a careful dissection of the authentic literary and aesthetic «alter ego» chosen by the nobleman Pere de Portugal, ephemeral king of Catalonia (1464-1466). The cartography of its motto, present in all kinds of architectural spaces and personal and institutional objects, reveals that it made an extraordinarily intensive use, first in Portugal and later in Catalonia. After most of these manifestations, the desire for legitimacy and a strong aesthetic sense palpitate. But above all the will to express a moral maxim, connected with chivalrous or speculative literature, inspired, among others, in the currents of pagan moral philosophy (Seneca and Boecius) and the humanists of the Trecento Italian. Only in this way can we understand that the motto Paine pour joie, like other similar emblematic formulas, is the result of the intellectual interests and anxieties of a late-medieval knight rather than the reflex-sublimation of his biographical experiences |
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