''La fi del comte d'Urgell'' (or the ''Scriptura privada'') is an anonymous
Catalan
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political tract written during the
Catalan Civil War
The Catalan Civil War, also called the Catalonian Civil War or the War against John II, was a civil war in the Principality of Catalonia, then part of the Crown of Aragon, between 1462 and 1472. The two factions, the royalists who supported John ...
(1462–72) by an enemy of king
John II John II may refer to:
People
* John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (1455–1499)
* John II Casimir Vasa of Poland (1609–1672)
* John II Comyn, Lord of Badenoch (died 1302)
* John II Doukas of Thessaly (1303–1318)
* John II Komnenos (1087–1 ...
. Largely composed of personal stories, including that of the death of
James II of Urgell
James II (in Catalan ''Jaume II d'Urgell'' or ''Jaume el Dissortat'' "James the unlucky", in Spanish ''Jayme II el desafortunado'') (1380 – 1 June 1433) was the Count of Urgell (1408–1413), Viscount of Àger, and lord of Antillón, Alcolea d ...
, whose right to the throne is championed. The decadence of the great noble families who supported
Ferdinand of Antequera
Ferdinand I (Spanish: ''Fernando I''; 27 November 1380 – 2 April 1416 in Igualada, Òdena) named Ferdinand of Antequera and also the Just (or the Honest) was king of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia and (nominal) Corsica and king of Sicily ...
in the
Compromise of Caspe
The 1412 Compromise of Caspe (''Compromís de Casp'' in Catalan) was an act and resolution of parliamentary representatives of the constituent realms of the Crown of Aragon (the Kingdom of Aragon, Kingdom of Valencia, and Principality of Catal ...
is portrayed as a divine curse on them. The earliest known manuscript of ''La fi'' dates from 1598 and its editor, Xavier de Salas Bosch (1931), considers it a sixteenth-century work, though most commentators prefer a fifteenth-century provenance, some suggesting as early as 1410–33.
References
*Alcoberro, Agustí (1999)
Reviewof ''Patriotisme i modernitat''. University of Barcelona.
*Batlle, Mar (1999). ''Patriotisme i modernitat a ''La fi del comte d’Urgell'': Una aproximació a les fonts de l'obra, l'anònim autor i l'historiador Jaume Ramon Vila''. Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat.
{{ISBN, 978-84-8415-071-8.
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Riquer, Martí de (1964). ''Història de la Literatura Catalana'', vol. 1. Barcelona: Edicions Ariel.
*Villanueva, Jesús (2000)
"Observacions sobre ''La fi del comte d'Urgell'': datació, transmissió manuscrita, contingut ideològic".''Arxiu de textos catalans antics'', 19:611–635.
External links
Medieval Catalan literature