FfraJohan Basset (Catalan pronunciation:[ʒuˈambəˈsɛt], modernised as Fra Joan Basset) was a Catalan author of twenty verses and a prose Letovari. His work is preserved in the Cançoner Vega-Aguiló (1420–30). He was probably active in the early years (1416–21) of the reign of Alfonso V. His religious title, fra ("brother"), has led to speculation that he was a knight of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem (based on an unsourced assertion of Jordi Rubió). Basset preached at Cervera during Lent in 1424. It is recorded that he was a member of the "Order of Santa Anna". This is probably a reference to the convent of Santa Anna at Barcelona, which was originally a house of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre under the guidance of the Patriarch of Jerusalem. Cohabitating at Santa Anna was a group of Brothers of Penitence and some Augustinian canons of Santa Eulàlia del Camp (since 1293). In 1420 the friars and canons passed into the Casa del Sant Sepulcre de Santa Anna.[1]
Basset was a competent and original poet; his poetry diverse in form and style, his themes both religious and amorous. Besides his religious and amorous poetry, Basset wrote three unique pieces: a planh, a piece entitled Vers lauda, and another called Vers clus. Basset's Letovari (electuarium) is a manual for curing the love-sick, dedicated to Guerau de Massanet. It has much in common with the Consolació of Luys Ycart and the Medicina of Bernat Metge.[2]
Basset's religious verse consists in four poems about the Virgin Mary. His Dansa de Nostra Dona was his first published work: it was edited by Manuel Milà i Fontanals and published in his Obras completas (1886–93). Its incipit is Ab letres d'aur per mesura and it was addressed to an anonymous lady de Sant Climent (from Sant Climent de Taüll). A similarly titled piece, the Dansa e laors de Nostra Dona, has the form of a typical love song (cançó); only its title betrays its religious purpose. It incipit is Lausan vostra saviesa.
Basset's Dir me cové si be.m tench l'engeny fflach and Mayres de Dieu, valerosa princesa are also addressed to Mary. In the latter, each stanza begins with a line introducing the Mayres de Dieu followed by six lines beginning e cert molt val ("is certainly more worthy") and ending with the refrain e res no val tant com la vostra cort ("and nothing is worth as much as your court"). The structure of this piece and its contents suggest it is a religious plazer, a genre introduced to Catalonia by Cerverí de Girona over a century earlier and Catalanised by Pere March within Basset's lifetime.
Basset's love poetry fits within the tradition of courtly love and of the troubadours. This is obvious when he refers to himself as a "prisoner" of his lady and in his use of feudal and military terminology to describe their relationship.
List of poemsedit
Ab fin voler vos am, senyora bella (or belha)
Ab letres d'aur per mesura
Amor servir honran, presan e tembre
Amors, de suspirs
Aspres dolors, penetrant, me destenta
Astres no us fuig pus tan sabers se planta
Be·ls (or Belha) mil(s) sospirs vos fau tot jorn de renda
Creure podets, senyora valarosa
Dir me cove, se be·m tench l’engeny flach
Dompna valen de lial valor, tembre (or Dompna valén de tal valor tembre)
En miey del cor porti VII colps mortals
Garaus amichs
Lausan vostra saviesa
Mayres de Dieu, valerosa princessa
No desir tant del mon la senyoria
Per gran rayso, cruel dona malvada
Princessa proz, valens, d'auta semença
Pus avets bondat despesa
Senyora valen
Terribles crits, agres, provocatoris
Una canço novelha vulh xantar
Us arbres sechs, verts, say, fulhats e fulhes
Us drachs fiblans va pel mon trop correns
Yeu vos requir, Na ladria malvada
Notesedit
^R. Miró i Baldrich (1995), "Predicar la Quaresma a Cervera als Segles XV i XVI", Estudis de llengua i literatura catalanes, XXX: Miscel·lània Germà Colón, 3 (Montserrat: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat), 94–95.
^*Martín de Riquer (1964), Història de la Literatura Catalana, vol. 1 (Barcelona: Edicions Ariel), 635–41, provides a poem-by-poem overview of Basset's literary achievement.
External linksedit
Incipitario di Fra Joan Basset, with links to edited original-language texts of his twenty pieces
January 01, 1970
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