Narcís Vinyoles

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Narcís Vinyoles (* between 1442 and 1447 in Valencia , Spain , † 1517 in Valencia) was a Valencian poet , lawyer and minister . He wore the title of Mossen which the one Cavallers was similar. Narcís or N'Arcis (from En Arcis) is the Catalan spelling of the first name. The Spanish form Narciso de Viñoles is also occasionally found in the literature .

Life

Narcís Vinyoles came from a family of lawyers. He died in 1517 at the estimated age of 70–75 years, from which one can deduce that he was born around 1442–1447. His father's name was Antonio and he lived in the Parroquia de San Andrés, a parish in Valencia. He was tutored by his uncle Damián Vinyoles, who worked in the presbytery of the Cathedral of Valencia . It is possible that he continued his studies up to a doctorate in law and then worked as an advisor in the criminal court. His political career was extremely successful, so that he held numerous high offices in Valencia between 1468 and 1516, including a. Minister (conseller), jury (jurat), “comptador de la generalitat” and administrator of the Llotja, the large, then new market.

He married Brianda de Sant Angel, a niece of the banker who helped finance Columbus' expedition to America. The marriage remained childless.

Narcís Vinyoles was one of the most prolific poets of his time and a great connoisseur of both Latin and the Tuscan dialect of the Italian language . He published works in Valencian , Catalan , Castilian , Tuscan and Latin and thus showed extraordinary language and specialist knowledge. He belonged to the renowned literary circle around Bernat Fenollar and took part in numerous poetry competitions, for example in 1474, 1486, 1488 and 1511.

Works (excerpt)

  • Scachs d'amor , together with Bernat Fenollar and Francesc de Castellví i de Vic , 1470–1490
  • Poems included in " Obres o trobes de laors de la Verge Maria ", on the occasion of the poetry competition 1474
  • Obra de la Sacratissima Concepcio de la Intemerata Mare de Deu, Valencia 1486
  • Lo proces de les olives, Valencia 1497
  • Obra sens titol a la honor
  • Omelia sobre lo psalm del Miserere mei deus: Ordenada per lo Magnifich must Narcis vinyoles Ciutada de Valencia
  • La vida de sancta Catherina de Sena, Valencia 1499
  • Obres fetes en lahor dela seraphica senta catherina d'sena, Valencia 1511
  • Cancionero de Castillo
  • Con preuilegio Real. Suma de todas las Cronicas del mundo. Llamado en latin Suplementu Cronica

Chess meaning

Narcís Vinyoles was co-author of the chess poem Scachs d'amor , the first written reference to the game of chess, which was played with the new rules (especially the type of move of checkers and bishops ) . He is therefore, together with his co-authors Francí de Castellví and Bernat Fenollar, as well as the literary figure Francesc Vicent, a co-founder of modern chess. Although Scachs d'amor is an artistically constructed game of chess, which is hardly a record of a real game played, Vinyoles is the first known loser of this game.

See also

literature

  • Ricardo Calvo: Valencia Spain: The Cradle of European Chess (PDF; 166 kB). Presentation to the CCI, Vienna 1998 (English).
  • Enciclopèdia Catalana, SAU (online): Narcís Vinyoles , (accessed July 3, 2015).
  • Francisco Martí Grajales: Ensayo de un Diccionario Biográfico y Bibliográfico de los poetas que florecieron en el Reino de Valencia hasta el año 1700 , Madrid 1927, pp. 470–474.
  • Justo Pastor Fusler: Biblioteca valenciana de los escritores que florecieron hasta a la de D. Vicente Ximeno , (Colección Biblioteca Valenciana), Volume 1, Valencia 1827, pp. 54-56 ( digitized ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Calvo 1998.
  2. ^ Pastor 1827, p. 54.
  3. ↑ This emerges from the father's will of September 14, 1476, which was published in 1488 (Pastor 1827, p. 54).
  4. ↑ This information comes from Francisco Cerdá y Rico (in La Diana Enamorada by Gil Polo, p. 305) and Rafael Ferrer y Bigné ( Estudio histórico , p. 41), but could not be proven in sources so far (Marti 1927, p. 470).
  5. ↑ Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  6. ↑ Pastor 1827, pp. 54f.
  7. ↑ Marti 1927, p. 471.
  8. ↑ Enciclopèdia Catalana.
personal data
SURNAME Vinyoles, Narcís
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Viñoles, Narciso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Valencian poet, lawyer and minister
DATE OF BIRTH between 1442 and 1447
PLACE OF BIRTH Valencia
DATE OF DEATH 1517
Place of death Valencia