Question
As part of the Catalan Renaissance, Catalan poets could win the title “Master of the Gay Science” in a 19th-century revival of Occitan “games” named for these objects. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these objects. A 19th-century poetry collection titled for these objects had six “condemned poems” censored from their publication, though they were later published in a separate volume titled Scraps.
ANSWER: flowers [accept Les Fleurs du mal; accept floral games or Jocs florals; reject specific types of flowers]
[10h] Jocs florals winner Jacint Verdaguer wrote a long poem about this person hearing the story of the title empire. A 1930 dramatic monologue ends with this person contemplating “kingdoms naked in the trembling heart” and a “Hand of Fire.”
ANSWER: Christopher Columbus (The poem is L’Atlàntida. The monologue is Hart Crane’s “Ave Maria.”)
[10e] The original Jocs florals were created to revive the poetry of these Occitan lyric poets, who often wrote about courtly love and included Arnaut Daniel.
ANSWER: troubadours
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Summary
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Data
| Berkeley B | Stanford | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Free Agents | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |