Troubadour legacy in Roberto Rossi Precerutti's Entrebescar (1982)

Abstract

This article examines Roberto Rossi Precerutti’s Entrebescar as an example of contemporary re-visitation of troubadour lyric. The first chapter traces Enrtebescar’s cultural horizon and leads to an overall evaluation of the troubadours’ models in the book. The second and third chapters analyzes four emblematic poems centered around some explicit citations of troubadours or Provençal topoi. The analysis thereby reveals the peculiarities of Rossi Precerutti’s trobar, especially in relation to the ric traits: the syntactic architecture is indeed the first element of signification. All the poems show the centrality of the relationship between the “self ” and the world, revealing that the undecidability of some lines is related to the impossibility of perfectly delimiting reality.