Aimeric de Sarlat - Citizendia

Aimeric de Sarlat (fl. c. 1200) was a troubadour from Sarlat in the Périgord. A troubadour ( IPA:, originally) was a composer and performer of Occitan Lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100&ndash1350 Sarlat-la-Canéda, or simply Sarlat, is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France. The Périgord ( ( Occitan: Peiregòrd / Perigòrd) is a former province of France, which corresponds roughly to the current Dordogne According to his vida he rose by talent from the rank of jongleur to troubadour, but composed only one song, though four cansos survive under his name. Vida is the usual term for a brief prose biography written in Occitan, of a Troubadour or Trobairitz. minstrel was a medieval European Bard who performed songs whose lyrics told stories about distant places or about real or imaginary historical events The canso or canço is a Song style used by the Troubadours It consists of three parts

The sole topic with which his surviving work is concerned is courtly love and he was a worthy imitator of the great Bernart de Ventadorn. Courtly love was a Medieval European conception of ennobling love which found its genesis in the ducal and princely courts of Aquitaine, Provence Bernart de Ventadorn (1130-1140 &ndash 1190-1200 also known as Bernard de Ventadour or Bernat del Ventadorn, was a prominent Troubador of the classical A fifth canso, "Fins e leials e senes tot engan", attributed in the chansonniers to Aimeric de Belenoi, has been assigned to Aimeric de Sarlat by modern scholarship. A chansonnier (cançoner cançonièr Galician and cancioneiro canzoniere or canzoniéro cancionero is a Manuscript or printed book which contains a Aimeric de Belenoi (fl 1215&ndash1242 was a Gascon Troubadour. Partly this is because it is directed to Elvira de Subirats, wife of Ermengol VIII of Urgell, to whom Aimeric de Sarlat addressed his "Ja non creirai q'afanz ni cossiriers". Ermengol or Armengol VIII (1158 &ndash 1208 known as el de Sant Hilari, was the Count of Urgell from 1184 to his death An example of Aimeric's poetry:

Si saubesson parlan mei oill,

e. l cor, don tan soven sospir,

tot saupras quals son mei consir;

car la boca non a ges vassalatge

de vos dire zo don lo cor languis. . .

If you knew to speak to my eyes,

and to my heart, which so often sighs,

soon you would know all my worries;

for this the mouth has no authority

to tell you for what the heart languishes. . .

Aimeric was probably patronised by William VIII of Montpellier. William VIII of Montpellier (died 1202 was Lord of Montpellier, the son of William VII. One of his works may have inspired Denis of Portugal to compose a poem in Portuguese. Denis ( Portuguese: Dinis or Diniz, diˈniʃ 9 October 1261 in Lisbon – 7 January, 1325 in Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal.

Sources

The Vidas of the Troubadours. Margarita Egan, trans. New York: Garland, 1984. ISBN 0 8240 9437 9.
Lang, H. R. "The Relations of the Earliest Portuguese Lyric School with the Troubadours and Trouvères." Modern Language Notes, 10:4 (Apr. , 1895), pp. 104–116.
Riquer, Martín de. Los trovadores: historia literaria y textos. 3 vol. Barcelona: Planeta, 1975.