From the root to the top (with an insect in between): the erotic poetry of Diego Hurtado de Medoza reloaded

• Main Author: J. Ignacio Díez
• Format: Article
• Language: Catalan
• Published: Universitat de Girona; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2015-12-01
• Series: Studia Aurea: Revista de Literatura Española y Teoría Literaria del Renacimiento y Siglo de Oro
• Subjects: diego hurtado de mendoza; pulga; zanahoria; cana; poesía erótica; gutierre de cetina; mattio franzesi; juan díaz hidalgo; amplificación; atribución
• Online Access: https://studiaaurea.com/article/view/164

The exclusion of the burlesque works from the <em>editio princeps</em> of the poetry of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza can be interpreted as the attempt to recuperate the «grave» image of an illustrious ancestor of the Count of Tendilla. Preliminary pieces of this edition show a similar intention. The editor of the volume, frey Juan Díaz Hidalgo, only mentions three of these works («the carrot, white hair, flea and other burlesque things»), which would require the establishment of the corpus preserved in the manuscripts. The three texts are unequivocally Mendoza’s poems, as evidenced by the prologue of the first editor and the systematic coherence of the manuscript transmission (despite its problems). The flea, in the source that attributes it to Cetina, has amplifications that destroy the credibility of this authorship. The carrot, in the bernesque tradition, does not follow any of the <em>capitoli</em> by Franzesi. The white hair, finally, has been transmited in two versions, one of them amplified.