Review of Primo Levi, ‘Si això és un home’

Review of Isabel Turull, ‘Diccionari de paranys de traducció italià-català’

This is a pedagogical edition of a section of Ramon Muntaner’s Catalan Crònica (ca. 1230) relating the events leading up to the so-called ‘Catalan vengeance,’ in which the Catalan company who had been invited by the Byzantine Emperor to defend Constantinople were deceived, massacred, and then launched a bloody counterattack that earned them…[Read more]

This is a pedagogical edition of a section of Ramon Muntaner’s Catalan Crònica (ca. 1230) relating the events leading up to the so-called ‘Catalan vengeance,’ in which the Catalan company who had been invited by the Byzantine Emperor to defend Constantinople were deceived, massacred, and then launched a bloody counterattack that earned them…[Read more]

Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameró, translated into Catalan by Maria Aurèlia Capmany

Aquest estudi se centra, d’una banda, en les relacions de Palau i Fabre amb la literatura, l’art i la cultura italianes; i, de l’altra, en la recepció (molt limitada) de la seva obra.

A Joan Maragall Dictionary should be written. It would contain a relatively limited number of lexemes—Fifty? Sixty?—and, in the first place, the approaches that the author himself had made to those words should be added, despite being contradictory….

Hi ha concepte que semblen diàfans, però que poden tornar-se ambigus quan hi reflexionem amb atenció, com el de la violència. Si bé actualment aquest terme envaeix el nostre espai i sovint el llegim de manera unívoca, en el moment en què hi aprofundim hem de reconsiderar-ne el significat. Així mateix, la identitat, que ha estat el tema nuclear…[Read more]

The historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire. Drawing upon a wealth of historical documents, linguistic treatises and literary texts, this book offers fresh insights into the political and cultural forces that…[Read more]

La relación histórica entre las lenguas catalana y occitana tuvo un impacto decisivo en la formación de la identidad lingüística de la Corona de Aragón y, más tarde, en la del Imperio Español. Basándose en una gran variedad de documentos históricos, tratados lingüísticos y textos literarios, y mediante un análisis textual innovador, el presente…[Read more]

Wacks, David A. “Romance of Evast and Blaquerna by Ramón Llull (Review).” La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, vol. 47, no. 1, 2018, pp. 122–24. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cor.2018.0022.

This paper deals with the complicated sociopolitical space defined by the use and transformation of what we call Occitan language. Literary and cultural production in Occitan language during the late 12th and early 13th centuries light up the boundary conditions, the boundary values of what we call courtly culture making them visible in all their…[Read more]