Carlo d’Angiò e poesia antiangioina: prove di nascita di un’identità europea

This article aims to demonstrate how Charles I of Anjou’s figure and government affected the development of a European cultural and political identity between 1246 and 1285. In fact, the features of anti-Angevin literature (whose major promoters were Occitan troubadours) confirm the existence of a common awareness of political instability and of a widespread feeling of opposition to Charles. In this sense, the fact that different authors used similar recurring forms, themes and rhetorical strategies at the same time suggests the existence of a European identity. New data are given to corroborate this hypothesis, such as the position of German Minnesanger , Austorc de Segret and Ricaut Bonomel (active in the Holy Land), as well as the involvement of European kings (such as Peter III of Aragon, Alfonso X of Castile and Edward I of England) in the context of anti-Angevin poetry.