Berengier Trobel
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Berengier Trobel or Berenguier Trobel (fl.
1275) was a troubadour
and bourgeois from Rodez
. He wrote two surviving cansos
. Outside of his own poetry and the chansonnier
s that contain it he is known from only two documents of Rodez, both of which he witnessed in 1275.
One of his cansos is an attack on love. The other is about the dues of true love.
Floruit
Floruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
1275) was a troubadour
Troubadour
A troubadour was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages . Since the word "troubadour" is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a trobairitz....
and bourgeois from Rodez
Rodez
Rodez is a town and commune in southern France, in the Aveyron department, of which it is the capital. Its inhabitants are called Ruthénois.-History:Existing from at least the 5th century BC, Rodez was founded by the Celts...
. He wrote two surviving cansos
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...
. Outside of his own poetry and the 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 that contain it he is known from only two documents of Rodez, both of which he witnessed in 1275.
One of his cansos is an attack on love. The other is about the dues of true love.
Sources
- Jeanroy, AlfredAlfred JeanroyAlfred Jeanroy was a French linguist.Jeanroy was born at Mangiennes, Meuse, Lorraine. He was a leading scholar studying troubadour poetry, publishing over 600 works. He established an influential view of the second generation of troubadours divided into two camps: “idealists” and “realists”...
(1934). La poésie lyrique des troubadours. Toulouse: Privat.