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Author: Alfonso X , o Sábio
Title: Cantigas de Santa Maria do rei don Alfonso
Date: 1980
Publication details: selección, prólogo y versiones modernas de Alvaro Cunqueiro. Vigo: Ed. Galaxia, 1980. 114 pp.
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Commentary: Snow 2007 "A selection of 23 cantigas to honor Alfonso's contributions to Galician letters: it includes those which mention Galicia, Galician shrines, etc., inter alia. The modern Galician translations are faithful verse renderings which preserve rhyme and meter with few alterations. Included are: Prologues a and B, CSM 3, 7, 8, 13, 23, 26, 32, 44, 55, 74, 77, 103, 108, 128, 136, 147, 189, 202, 206, 209, and 354. A brief introduction [in Galician] by Cunqueiro is pleasant. The original texts are from Mettmann's ed."
Associated Poems: 3 - Theophilus
7 - The Pregnant Abbess
8 - The Minstrel of Rocamadour
13 - Elbo the Thief
23 - The Woman whose Wine was Replenished
26 - The Pilgrim to Santiago
32 - The Priest who Only Knew One Mass
40 - Cantiga de loor
55 - The Nun who Left the Convent
74 - The Painter and the Devil
77 - The Contorted Woman of Lugo
103 - The Monk who Listened to a Bird’s Song for Three Hundred Years
108 - Merlin and the Jew
128 - The Peasant who Placed a Host in a Beehive
136 - The Gambling Woman who Threw a Stone at a Statue of the Virgin
147 - The Talking Sheep
189 - The Pilgrim Healed of Dragon’s Bane
202 - The Songwriter who was Given a Rhyme
206 - Pope Leo who Cut off his Hand
209 - King Alfonso is Healed by the Virgin’s Book
354 - The King’s Ferret
BITAGAP BIBID: 4107
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