As formas no Cancioneiro geral de Garcia de Resende: tradição e inovações

Abstract

Garcia de Resende’s Cancioneiro geral presents a remarkable characteristic regarding the productions of the XV-XVI centuries: the form. The Portuguese court poets dedicated themselves to the formal structure of their poems with appreciation and acuteness. The forms they devoted themselves bring much of the tradition, but mainly innovations that anticipate future literary aesthetics. It is possible to clearly identify in the Resende’s Cancioneiro at least six molds to express the poetic contents in each genre. The forms that frame the 880 poems of the Resendian compilation are the balada, the cantiga, the esparsa, the poem of mixed forms, the trova and the vilancete. In this study, I expose the characteristic of each one of them, observing its origin and development during the Portuguese Humanism, transition from Middle Ages to Modernity