Cerverí de Girona
Cerverí de Girona (Catalan pronunciation: 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
Sources
- Cabré, Miriam. Cerverí de Girona: un trobador al servei de Pere el Gran. Barcelona-Palma: Universitat de Barcelona-Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2011. ISBN 978-84-475-3513-2.
- Cabré, Miriam. Cerverí de Girona and his Poetic Traditions. London: Tamesis, 1999. ISBN 978-1-85566-042-7.
- Gaunt, Simon, and Kay, Sarah. "Appendix I: Major Troubadours" (pp. 279–291). The Troubadours: An Introduction. Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay, edd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-57473-0.
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