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Article: 'Comed, conde': the Cid's use of parody.
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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The concluding section of the first Cantar of the Poema de Mio Cid narrates an important incident involving the Cid's defeat and capture of the count of Barcelona, Berenguer Ramon II, the count's short-lived hunger-strike, and his subsequent release. The Cid's victory over such a high-ranking figure and its key position at the end of the first Cantar, together with the Cid's extensivc use of word-play both in his repeated |Comed, conde' (Latin comed and comitem having given [komede] and [komede] respectively in early Romance), and the pun on franco in line 1068, have ensured that this section has received considerable critical attention.(1) However, despite the best ...