El lai “Si bé, Fortuna, has dat lo torn”: Edició crítica del poema en català de la novel·la "Triste deleitación"

Abstract

The Castilian novel Triste deleitacion , written in the late fifteenth century by an author from the Crown of Aragon, includes several letters and poems. One of these poems, “Sy be, Fortuna, as dat lo torn”, is written in Catalan. This article presents the poem’s annotated critical edition, which reports how it is indebted to the Catalan lyrical tradition. Written in an evolved form of the French lai cultivated by various Catalan poets, the poem is clearly influenced by Pere Torroella’s lai “Qui volra veure un pobre estat”, and linked to two other similar lais also dependent on Torroella’s. This edition is completed by a translation into modern Catalan.