Johan Blanch

Johan or Joan Blanch was an Occitan troubadour who composed a "canso" for a "joc floral" at the Consistori del Gay Saber. According to the rubric of the fourteenth-century chansonnier that preserves it, he was a Catalan whose poem "won the violet" ("gazaynet la violeta"), top prize. His "canso" is elegant and pleading.

His dates are entirely unknown, as is the year he won the violet, though Jaume Massó i Torrents hypothesised 1360.

References

*Jeanroy, Alfred (1940). "Poésies provençales inédites du XIVe siècle d'après le manuscrit de Barcelone". "Annales du Midi", 52:241–279.
*Riquer i Morera, Martí de (1964). "Història de la Literatura Catalana", vol. 1. Barcelona: Edicions Ariel.

External links

* [http://www.rialc.unina.it/18.1.htm Ben hay razo quez yeu mos xans espanda] , ed. by Jeanroy
* [http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/78036287651236130932457/ima0242.htm Johan Blanch, catala, gazaynet la violeta per aquesta canso. «Ben hay razo quez ieu mos xans espanda».] Folio 121v from the Cançoner Gil showing the "canso" with which Blanch won the violet at Toulouse. Presented by the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.