VERDAGUER I SANTALÓ, JACINT. - Catalan priest and poet, b. at Folgaroles on 17 May 1845, d. at Vallvidriera on 10 June 1902.
From his many travels in Europe and Africa as chaplain of the Transatlantic Company of Barcelona he left his impressions as an attentive observer in the vol. Excursions i viatges (1884): but already as far back as 1877, the publication of the poem L'Atlàntida had revealed him as a poet of exceptional quality: another poem, Canigó, a Pyrenean legend from the era of the reconquest (1886), earned him the crown of «poet of Catalonia».
A pious and zealous priest and a lyric poet by instinct, he entrusted to verse his mystical ardour and his patriotic feeling: Idita i cants mistichs, Cántics, Cansons de Montserrat, Caritat, El somni de san Joan, Jesús Infant, Nazaret, S. Francesc, Flors de Maria, Patria, the famous Oda a Barcellona, etc. More than 1200 lyrics by V. were set to music and sung by the crowds. Suspended a divinis in 1895 because of calumnious rumours, he portrayed his inner sorrow in the poetic collections Roser de tot l'any and Flors del Calvari; but readmitted to celebrate Mass in 1898, he was entrusted with a benefice in the church of Bethlehem, in Barcelona. He had vigour and sincerity of inspiration, a lively imagination, nobility of form not averse to popular modulations. V. is one of the greatest representatives of the Catalan renaissance.
Bibliography6 worksed.: Opere complete in 30 voll., Barcelona 1914 ff.; Studies: A. Masiera, V. poeta mistich, ibid. 1902; I. Palp y Plana, M. V., ibid. 1902;
BIBL.: ed.: Opere complete in 30 voll., Barcelona 1914 ff.; Studies: A. Masiera, V. poeta mistich, ibid. 1902; I. Palp y Plana, M. V., ibid. 1902; Conde de Güell, El poeta V., apuntes y recuerdos, ibid. 1927; V. Serra Boldò, V., ibid. 1932; anonymous, s. v. in Enc. Eur. Am., LXVII, pp. 1415-27.
Navarra, Enzo. “Verdaguer I Santalò, jacint.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, col. 1254. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954. https://azioneromana.com/article/verdaguer-i-santalo-jacint.
MLA
Navarra, Enzo. “Verdaguer I Santalò, jacint.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954, col. 1254. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/verdaguer-i-santalo-jacint.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec12_verdaguer_i_santalo_jacint,
author = {Navarra, Enzo},
title = {Verdaguer I Santalò, jacint},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XII},
pages = {1254},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1954},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/verdaguer-i-santalo-jacint}
}
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