by Jacint Verdaguer · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496414723
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«Canigó» is the Catalan epic by Jacint Verdaguer, published by El Periódico in paperback (155 pages, in Catalan).
An 11th-century epic poem that blends historical figures of medieval Catalonia, such as Bernat Tallaferro and Abbot Oliba, with legendary characters like the fairy Flordeneu. Gentil, Bernat's son, is bewitched by the fairy during the era of Muslim invasions. The work is a hymn to the Pyrenees and Catalan geography, with exuberant imagery.
Originally published in 1886, it is a key poem of the Catalan Renaixença; it is structured in twelve cantos and an epilogue. Edition by Marina Gustà.
For readers of epic poetry and fans of 19th-century Catalan literary classics.
Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló was a Spanish writer and priest, regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure of the Renaixença, a cultural revival movement of the late Romantic era. The bishop Josep Torras i Bages, one of the main figures of Catalan nationalism, called him the "Prince of Catalan poets". He was also known as mossèn (Father) Cinto Verdaguer, because of his career as a priest, and informally also simply "mossèn Cinto".
