Abstract
The Catalan poet Benedicto Gareth (ca 1450–1515), known as il Cariteo, left Barcelona to follow the Aragonese kings to their court in Naples. With his poetry, he highly contributed in erecting a glorious monument in celebrating the powerful dynasty in Italy. Cariteo, one of the most erudite humanists of the Accademia Pontaniana, chose to write in vernacular, rather than Latin or Catalan, in order to follow the example of other great Italian poets, such as Petrarch, and most of all, in order to create a bond with Italians in and outside the kingdom of Naples, thereby strengthening the Aragonese claims to its ruling. Cariteo's political poems in the Endimione, and their powerful remarks about his kings constitute an extraordinary diplomatic and poetic propaganda for the Aragonese regime, and intersect with its major historical events.
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