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AUZIAS MARCH (c. "1395-1458)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 688 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARCH (c. "1395-1458)  , Catalan poet, was See also:born at See also:Valencia towards the end of the 14th See also:century . Little is known of his career except that he was twice married—first to Na Ysabel Martorell, and second to Na Johanna Scorna—that he died on the 4th of See also:November 1458, and that he See also:left several natural See also:children . Inheriting an easy See also:fortune from his See also:father, the treasurer to the See also:duke of See also:Gandia, and enjoying the powerful patronage of See also:Prince See also:Carlos de Viana of See also:Aragon, See also:March was enabled to devote himself to poetical See also:composition . He is an undisguised follower of See also:Petrarch, carrying the See also:imitation to such a point that he addresses his Cants d'amor to a See also:lady whom he professes to have seen first in See also:church on See also:Good See also:Friday; so far as the difference of See also:language allows, he reproduces the rhythmical cadences of his See also:model, and in the Cants de mort touches a See also:note of brooding sentiment See also:peculiar to himself . Though his poems are disfigured by obscurity and a monotonous morbidity, he was fully entitled to the supremacy which he enjoyed among his contemporaries, and the success of his innovation no doubt encouraged Boscan to introduce the See also:Italian metres into Castilian . His verses were first printed in Catalan in 1543, but they had already become known through the Castilian See also:translation published by Baltasar de Romani in 1539 .

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