Parnaso Lusitano: De humanos a divin(izad)os versos: a importância do teatro ibérico na configuração dos vilancicos de soror Violante do Céu

Abstract

The religious villancico is one of the most abundant forms of Violante do Céu's poetry, and may be the reasons that led Miguel Rodrigues to publish, in 1733, the Parnaso Lusitano de Divinos e Humanos Versos, a vast collection of poetry by Sister Violante do Céu, which had remained forgotten until there in the monastery of Rosa, in Lisbon. Therefore, taking as a corpus of analysis the set of 395 villancicos composed by Sister Violante do Céu, this article analyses how, in them, the author establishes a close dialogue with profane and religious texts from Spanish and Portuguese literature, particularly from autos and entremeses. This fact allows us to assess not only the presence of this dramatic genre in a Portuguese monastic context, but also its importance in poetic configuration of Violante do Céu's villancicos, which often reorients to the divine some titles of autos and some script lines of characters, to achieve the doctrinal and devotional message of her villancicos.