L’origine del canto: Guglielmo di Sint-Thierry e Bernart de Ventadorn

L’origine del canto: Guglielmo di Saint-Thierry e Bernart de Ventadorn
The paragraph 139 of Guillaume de Saint-Thierry’s Expositio super Cantica Canticorum, a less known work in Romance studies when compared to the De natura et dignitate amoris, shows a revealing structural affinity with the first cobla of Chantars no pot gaire valer, making it possible to suggest a case of intertextuality between two remarkable testimonies of the discussion on love during the 12th century. The article reconstructs the meaning of the keyword cantare in Guillaume’s work, in relation with the idea of love caritas, and dwells upon the textual data that this work shares with the cobla, aiming to illuminate the cultural weight of the Bernart de Ventadorn’s manifesto.