Dos poemas en castellano para el nacimiento y muerte de Enrique III de Navarra y IV de Francia

Abstract

Two poems, both composed in honor of Henri III of Navarre and IV of France, testify to the use of the Castilian language in the south of France during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The first figures in a collection published in Toulouse in 1554 on the occasion of his birth, entitled Poems in diverse languages concerning the birth of Henry of Bourbon. Castilian rubs shoulders not only with the great languages of culture (French, Latin, Greek, Italian), but also with less disseminated languages (Béarn and Languedocian (Toulouse) dialects of Occitan, Breton, Basque, Franco-Provençal, German). The author who organized the collection, Bernard Du Poey, was Béarnais, tied to the house of Navarre and to the literary milieu of Toulouse (the...