by Jacint Verdaguer, Lluís Busquets i Grabulosa · Laertes editorial, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475844862
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«Canigó: llegenda pirenaica del temps de la Reconquista» is the epic poem by Jacint Verdaguer, published by Laertes in paperback (229 pages, in Catalan).
Written in twelve cantos, the poem is set between the Tet and the Fluvià, around the year 1000. Verdaguer blends historical and fantastical characters —fadas, goges and fetilleres— in a triple martial, spiritual and religious adventure that celebrates the emergence of Catalonia and the romantic vision of its identity against Saracens and pagan seductions.
Edition by Lluís Busquets i Grabulosa, who also signs the introduction, in the collection Lectures i itineraris (no. 35). This edition is from 2002; the original work was published in 1886.
For secondary school students and readers interested in epic poetry and Catalan romanticism.
Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló was a Spanish writer and priest, regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure of the Renaixença, a cultural revival movement of the late Romantic era. The bishop Josep Torras i Bages, one of the main figures of Catalan nationalism, called him the "Prince of Catalan poets". He was also known as mossèn (Father) Cinto Verdaguer, because of his career as a priest, and informally also simply "mossèn Cinto".
