Cerverí de Girona

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Taflamart, an Occitan poem by Cerverí.

Cerverí de Girona (Catalan pronunciation:

James the Conqueror and Peter the Great. He wrote pastorelas and sirventes
and his overriding concern was the complexities of court life. None of his music survives.

Cerverí spent some time under the patronage and at the court of Hugh IV and Henry II of Rodez. He was in Spain in 1269, for he is found that year in the entourage of the then-infante Peter the Great. With fellow troubadours Folquet de Lunel and Dalfinet he accompanied Peter to Toledo. On 26 April at Riello, near Cuenca, he received one solidus for his services. Cerverí's Cobla en sis lengatges ("Verse in six languages") copied the metre of either Folquet's Al bon rey q'es reys de pretz car or Sordel's Bel m'es ab motz leugiers a far.

Cerverí wrote Si per tristor, per dol no per cossir, a

Virgin Mary to show as much mercy to James as he showed on earth, referring to his establishing the Mercedarian Order in Barcelona. The poet Matieu de Caersi
wrote a very different planh, Tant suy marritz que no.m puese alegrar, for James, moralising and religious in tone.

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