Berenguer d'Anoia
Berenguer d'Anoia or de Noya (fl. c. 1300) was a
Berenguer's parents were noble Catalans, originally from the village of
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The Mirall commences with a prologue explaining its division into four chapters that study rhetorical forms and major poetic errors. It begins thus: Comença la miraylls de trobar o de versificar o de rimar. Car si hom mira o regarda sas fausas en un mirall... Everything is illustrated with examples drawn from the compositions of previous troubadours, but not always in the correct form. Berenguer himself does not have any work to his own name, though some otherwise unattributable fragments from his treatise are assumed to be his work. The following short section is taken from his illustration of the religious alba:
- Gaita, be gardatz
- que no us sia amblatz
- lo castell que tan beyl
- vos a Deus comanatz,
- car si es noveyl
- non es aycell
- qui mantz n'a enganatz.
- No us fisetz en l'enemich
- qui per plazer vos destrich,
- ans fayts gens queix vostra gaita
The Institut Berenguer d’Anoia, founded in Inca in 1970, was named after the troubadour.