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| CSM Number : 279 | |||
| Short name: | King Alfonso is Healed | Alternative: | Alfonso X is cured by the Virgin |
| Incipit: | Santa Maria, valed’, ai Sennor | ||
| Refrain: | Santa Maria, valed’ ai Sennor/ e acorred’ a vosso trobador/ que mal lle vai. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | unspecified | Protagonist(s): | unspecified [King Alfonso X--This cantiga is written in the present tense in the first person.] |
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A devotee of the Virgin, who sang her praises, suffered an agonising illness that made him cry out in pain. He prayed to the Virgin to have mercy on him. He acknowledged that she was the best of all of God’s Creation. He confessed that he feared dying of the illness, which had him in its grip. He looked as green as [cloth made in] Cambrai. The Virgin took away his fever and evil humour. |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 10 10 10 10 10 4 | Refrain: | 10 10 4 |
| No. of Stanzas: | 4 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | AAB | aAaAab | Zejel: | Yes |
| MS locations: | |||
| E279, ToAppendix 10 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| None | |||
| Keywords | |||
| fever, illness, king, pain | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 3881 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| El Còdex musical de Las Huelgas. Música a veus dels segles XIII-XIV Anglés, Higinio | |||
| La música a Catalunya a fins al segle XIII Anglés, Higinio | |||
| Contributo allo studio della letteratura miracolistica Bertolucci Pizzorusso, Valeria | |||
| Historia de la Música Della Corte, A., and G. Pannain | |||
| Los endecasílabos de Alfonso X: Estudio sobre las Cantigas Hanssen, Friedrich | |||
| Questões de estructura estrófica nas Cantigas de Santa Maria: estructuras múltiplas, assimetrias e continuações inconsistentes Parkinson, Stephen | |||
| Alfonso X the Learned. Cantigas de Santa Maria. An Anthology Parkinson, Stephen | |||
| Antología de Alfonso el Sabio Peña, Margarita | |||
| Literatura galega medieval. I. A história. II. Antoloxia de textos comentados (lírica e prosa) Pena, Xosé Ramón | |||
| Alfonso X of Castile: Patron of Literature and Learning Procter, Evelyn S. | |||
| Alfonso X, el Sabio. Antología Solalinde, Antonio G. | |||
| A Selected and Annotated Discography of Recordings of Music from the Middle Ages in Spain Tinnell, Roger D. | |||