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readings in the text of Cambouliu's selections, and several errors in the critical apparatus.[1] The chief value of the work consists in having brought the poem out of relative obscurity and in having published enough of the text to arouse the curiosity of other critics.

Cambouliu's article was reviewed in 1860 by Ebert,[2] who published the first analysis of the poem and added a few further suggestions regarding sources.[3] Ebert's analysis is naturally incomplete, being based entirely upon the selections published by Cambouliu. Simultaneously with this review of Cambouliu's article there was published by Bartsch[4] a short article on the Cançoner d'Amor, wherein the author pointed out Rocabertí's familiarity with some of the poets of the Provençal school, and quoted the passages from the Gloria d'Amor in which these poets are mentioned.[5] Bartsch did not use the printed extracts of Torres Amat nor those of Cambouliu, but copied directly from the MS.

Cambouliu's work was subsequently utilized by a number of literary historians. The first of these was Milá y Fontanals, who in 1865, in an article on the old Catalan poets,[6] repeated what Torres Amat and Cambouliu had

  1. See on Rocabertí and the date of composition of the Gloria d'Amor, p. 10 below; also notes on vv. 485, 538-546, 680-700, 864-943.
  2. Adolf Ebert, Zur Geschichte der catalanischen Literatur, in Jahrbuch für romanische und englische Literatur, vol. 2 [1860], pp. 241-279; cf. pp. 273-279.
  3. See on sources below, p. 44, footnote 2.
  4. Karl Bartsch, Der catalonische Cançoner d'amor der Pariser Bibliothek, in Jahrbuch für romanische und englische Literatur, vol. 2 [1860], pp. 280-292; cf. pp. 280-284.
  5. The Provençal poets mentioned by Rocabertí are: Guillem de Cabestanh, Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, Jaufre Rudel de Blaya, Arnaut Daniel, Bernard de Ventadour.
  6. Manuel Milá y Fontanals, Resenya histórica y crítica dels Antichs Poetas Catalans, in Jochs Florals, Barcelona, 1865; reprinted in his Obras Completas, vol. 3, pp. 143-240; cf. pp. 206-207.