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Rh author. He further identifies the poet with the "Comenador Rochabertí castellàá de Emposta," to whom is addressed, in the Jardinet d'Orats, a poem entitled Resposta feta per mossen Torroella al comenador Rochabertí castellá de Emposta. From this he concludes that Fra Rocabertí is Don Bemardo Hugo de Rocabertí, "gran cruz y castellán de Emposta," who was a general in the army of Juan II which entered Catalonia in 1451. This opinion is accepted by Cambouliu, Ebert, Milá y Fontanals Briz, Rubió y Lluch, Denk, and Del Balzo.

The above-mentioned identification is only a conjecture and cannot be substantiated by any evidence gathered from the Gloria d'Amor. But whatever the poet's full name and title were, it is very probable that he belonged to the old and numerous family of Rocabertí to which belonged Don Diego Rocabertí de Pau y Bellera, whose genealogy was written in the seventeenth century by