Ein außergewöhnlicher Verdaguer-Interpret: Ricard Torrents

Abstract

Like the most important poet of the Renaixença, Jacint Verdaguer, Ricard Torrents was born in Folgueroles and like him attended the Episcopal seminary of the nearby capital of Osona, Vic. Over the last several years, Ricard Torrents, first president of the young University of Vic, has contributed like no other to the revaluation of the complex personality and the impressive literary work of Verdaguer. His various publications and coordination efforts in the field of research on the poet are living proof of it.
Keywords: Catalan literature, literary Renaissance, biography, Jacint Verdaguer, Ricard Torrents.