Per una rilettura di «Jus lo front» di Jordi de Sant Jordi

Resum

This article gives a preview of the text and commentary of one of the most problematic pieces of the little cançoner (anthology) of Jordi de Sant Jordi, which will be published in a critical edition in the collection Els nostres clàssics prepared by Donatella Siviero and the author of these lines. Together with new textual and interpretative proposals, this articles seeks to offer new answers to the many questions posed to the modern reader by Jordi de Sant Jordi?s estramps: from their particular anomalous metric form (all «negative rhymes») to their relation to the medieval poetic tradition. In this respect it points out the important signs of a privileged dialogue with Dante?s works, including those which are most properly lyric as well as the Commedia. These signs, together with Jordi de Sant Jordi?s probable conviction that Dante was the inventor of negative rhyme, lead us to think that it would be neither exaggerated nor unfounded to define the estramps as a sort of ?homage to Dante?.