L’amore tra poisûn e blîdeschaft: tradurre la lirica di Heinrich von Veldeke

Heinrich von Veldeke, examined here as a Minnesänger, came from the region of Limburg, a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural environment which significantly shaped his literary production. Among the 37 poems attributed to him, only a small number of strophes have been translated into Italian. This study focuses on an analysis of Tristran muose sunder sinen danc (MF/MT IV) and Der blîdeschaft sunder riuwe hât (MF/MT VI) in their Italian renderings, to discuss how they handled specific translation challenges posed by Veldeke’s poems. The first Lied reflects the influence of the Tristan material as mediated through Old French lyric poetry, while the second, structured as a Wechsel, offers an opportunity to investigate the semantic and poetic implications of the term blîdeschaft, a distinctive marker in Veldeke’s lyric corpus.