Events

• The Italian Calega Panzan
  Calega Panzan
  Calega Panzano, Panzan, or Panza was a Genoese merchant, politician and man of letters.Calega probably belonged to the Genoese Panzano family. He had a brother named Corrado...
  
   composes Ar es sazos c'om si deu alegrar, a sirventes
  Sirventes
  The sirventes or serventes is a genre of Occitan lyric poetry used by the troubadours. In early Catalan it became a sirventesch and was imported into that language in the fourteenth century, where it developed into a unique didactic/moralistic type...
  
  attacking the Guelphs and Angevins
  Capetian House of Anjou
  The Capetian House of Anjou, also known as the House of Anjou-Sicily and House of Anjou-Naples, was a royal house and cadet branch of the direct House of Capet. Founded by Charles I of Sicily, a son of Louis VIII of France, the Capetian king first ruled the Kingdom of Sicily during the 13th century...
  
  
• Raimon Gaucelm de Bezers
  Raimon Gaucelm de Bezers
  Raimon Gaucelm de Bezers was a Languedocian troubadour with nine surviving works. Many of his works appear with dates in the rubrics in manuscript C, a 14th-century work now "BN f.f...
  
   composes Qui vol aver complida amistansa, a canso
  Canso (song)
  The canso is a song style used by the troubadours. It consists of three parts. The first stanza is the exordium, where the composer explains his purpose. The main body of the song occurs in the following stanzas, and usually draw out a variety of relationships with the exordium. The canso can end...
  
  about Louis IX of France
  Louis IX of France
  Louis IX , commonly Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death. He was also styled Louis II, Count of Artois from 1226 to 1237. Born at Poissy, near Paris, he was an eighth-generation descendant of Hugh Capet, and thus a member of the House of Capet, and the son of Louis VIII and...
  
   and his preparations for the Eighth Crusade
  Eighth Crusade
  The Eighth Crusade was a crusade launched by Louis IX, King of France, in 1270. The Eighth Crusade is sometimes counted as the Seventh, if the Fifth and Sixth Crusades of Frederick II are counted as a single crusade...
  
  
• Paulet de Marselha
  Paulet de Marselha
  Paulet de Marselha was a Provençal troubadour from Marseille. Three of his eight surviving works are dedicated to Barral dels Baus, the viscount of Marseille. Three were love songs composed in Marseille during an era of peace...
  
   composes Razos no es que hom deja chantar, a planh
  Planh
  The planh or plaing is a funeral lament used by the troubadours, modeled on the medieval Latin planctus. It differed from the planctus in that it was intended for a secular audience...
  
  on the death of Barral des Baux
• Manuscript "V", one of the earliest preserved chansonnier
  Chansonnier
  A chansonnier is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings of songs, hence literally "song-books," although some manuscripts are so called even though they preserve the text but not the music A chansonnier is a manuscript or...
  
  s, is compiled in Catalonia
  Catalonia
  Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...
  
  . Now in the Biblioteca Marciana
  Biblioteca Marciana
  The Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana is a library and Renaissance building in Venice, northern Italy; it is one of the earliest surviving public manuscript depositories in the country, holding one of the greatest classical texts collections in the world. The library is named after St. Mark, the...
  
  , Venice
  Venice
  Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
  
  , fr. App. cod. XI.