The Troubadours at Home (Volume 2); Their Lives and Personalities, Their Songs and Their World

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1899. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... NOTES ON VOLUME ONE The notes are numbered to correspond with the superior figures placed in the text. The heavy-faced numbers in the notes refer to the list of Authorities at the front of Part One. When a Provencal poem is referred to it is by the page on which it begins. Vid, means For the original see. CHAPTER I. 1. Page 1.--Leslies d? Or is the title of a volume of poems by Mistral (No. 304). Le Moine des lies d'Or was the apocryphal author after whom Nostradamus pretended to write bis lives of the troubadours (No. 324). 2. P. 3.--Pourrteres is supposed to derive its name from the corruption of the dead Germans. 3. P. 4.--Vid. No. 41, p. 133. 4. P. 4.--Bertran de Lamanon, an influential noble of Provence, was born about 1200, son of Pons de Brugeiras. Lamanon is in the canton of EyguiSres (Bouches-du-Rh6ne), 10 DEGREES miles by rail from Cavaillon. The Provencal biography says he was a courtly knight and graceful in speech, and he made good society verse (coblas de solatz) and sirventes. In history he first appears in 1235. July 22, 1242, he was a witness when Raimon Berenguier, count of Provence, swore at Aix to take Genoa under his protection. Under Charles of Anjou he was equally prominent. Probably he went with Sordel on Charles's Italian expedition. His last appearance, so far as we know, was on April 23, 1260. We have fifteen (?) of his songs, some of them containing bold and bitter invectives. 5. P. 5.--The joglar and his relations to the troubadour will be treated in Chap. XXXIV. In general he was the Provencal equivalent of the French jongleur. Sometimes, besides singing the verse of the troubadours, he made verse of his own; the essential difference was that the former was courtly and artistic, the latter popular and rough. The view of Ren...