Eroticism in the Poetry of 16th Century: Regarding Valero Fuster's Chapbook

This article offers a carefully annotated edition of the poetic chapbook entitled Cobles noves de la cric-crac juntament ab altres can & ccedil;ons molt gracioses (1561), by the unknown poet Valero Fuster. The Arxiu Historic de la Ciutat de Barcelona houses the only known copy of this chapbook, a text which makes no reference to its place of printing or printer. The chapbook includes four poems, three in Catalan and one in Spanish. All four are coherent and, undoubtedly, refer to a Valencian context, which can be deduced both from linguistic and literary analysis. One of this article's goals is to write these four compositions into the literary history of 15th- and 16th-century Valencian erotic literature, much of which was collected by Ramon Miquel i Planas in one of his publications, the so-called Can & ccedil;oner satiric valenci & agrave; (1911). These manifestations of erotic literature were possible thanks to the impulse of humanism in Valencia.