Carles de Viana entre ira regia y fin’amor

This piece of research delineates the historical-political, emotional and poetic setting of the fragmentary romance «Por los montes Perineos» about Prince of Viana’s flight into exile. The text is to be found in BA1, followed by an Escorreguda focusing on love, whose copy does not at all seem to be there by chance. In parallel to these compositions, there are two ballads that are included only in the Cancionero musical de Palacio and that have several external and internal elements in common with the ballad «Por los montes Perineos». These four poetic compositions ultimately reflect the main problems that plagued Prince Carles de Viana throughout his life: the wrath of his father, King John II of Aragon, and his love affairs, both of which have their echo in different literary manifestations by Carles de Viana himself.