Gil Vicente
Gil Vicente (c. 1465 – c. 1536), called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal, he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus," often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama" and as one of Western literature's greatest playwrights. Vicente worked in Portuguese as much as he worked in Spanish and is thus, with Juan del Encina, considered joint-father of Spanish drama.
Quotes
[edit]- En la huerta nasce la rosa:
quiérome ir allá
por mirar al ruiseñor cómo cantavá.- The rose looks out in the valley,
And thither will I go,
To the rosy vale, where the nightingale
Sings his song of woe. - En la huerta nace la rosa — "The Nightingale", as translated by John Bowring in Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain (1824), p. 316
- The rose looks out in the valley,
Viera estar rosal florido,
cogí rosas con sospiro:
vengo del rosale.Del rosal vengo, mi madre,
vengo del rosale.- I saw the rose-grove blushing in pride,
I gather'd the blushing rose—and sigh'd—
I come from the rose-grove, mother,
I come from the grove of roses. - Del rosal vengo, mi madre — "I Come from the Rose-grove, Mother", as translated by J. Bowring in Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain (1824), p. 317
- I saw the rose-grove blushing in pride,
- La caza de amor
es de altanería.- The pursuit of love
is like falconry. - Epigraph attributed to Gil Vicente by Gabriel García Márquez in Crónica de una muerte anunciada ["Chronicle of a Death Foretold"] (1981), first page.
- The pursuit of love
- Quem não é senhor de si
Porque o será de ninguém?- Who himself cannot control
Why should he o'er others rule? - Farsa dos Físicos (1512?), tr. Aubrey F. G. Bell
- Who himself cannot control
External links
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Encyclopedic article on Gil Vicente on Wikipedia
Media related to Gil Vicente on Wikimedia Commons
