"O Senyor, rei de glòria"" / "Senyor, rei de glòria": difusió i significat de l'Oratio beati Karoli

Abstract

«O Senyor, rei de Glòria» / «Senyor, rei de Glòria»: dissemination and significance of the Oratio Beati Karoli Of the three known versions of the Oratio beati Karoli, one of them, which begins ?O Senyor, rei de Glòria?, forms part of an incunabular chalcographic print, while the other two have been handed down to us in manuscript form and with a different beginning: ?Senyor, rei de Glòria?. The considerable differences in the texts of the three renditions and, above all, the fact that they have rarely been related to one another call for a decontextualized analysis of the poem, which reveals some errors of interpretation. With the aimof remedying these deficiencies, we offer for the first time ever a synopsis of the three versions and, on the basis of the evidence they provide, we attempt to show the routes by which they spread and their original significance. It is important to underline the political background to the poem, which refers to Charles, first-born son of Aragon and Prince of Viana, and sets the scene around the build-up to and outbreak of the Catalan Civil War (1462-1472).