Peire Espanhol was a Limousin

Limousin (province)

Limousin is one of the traditional provinces of France around the city of Limoges. Limousin lies in the foothills of the western edge of the Massif Central, with cold weather in the winter...

 troubadour

Troubadour

A troubadour was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages . Since the word "troubadour" is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a trobairitz....

 with three extant cansos

Canso (song)

The canso is a song style used by the troubadours. It consists of three parts. The first stanza is the exordium, where the composer explains his purpose. The main body of the song occurs in the following stanzas, and usually draw out a variety of relationships with the exordium. The canso can end...

, including one religious alba

Alba (poetry)

The alba is a subgenre of Occitan lyric poetry. It describes the longing of lovers who, having passed a night together, must separate for fear of being discovered by their respective spouses....

. "Ar levatz sus, francha corteza gans!". His works have appeared, edited and with French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

translations, in Peter T. Ricketts, "Les poésies de Peire Espanhol: édition critique et traduction" in Studies in Honor of Hans-Erich Keller: Medieval French and Occitan Literature and Romance Linguistics, Rupert T. Pickens, ed. (Kalamazoo, 1993), pp. 383–95.

Sources

• Bibliographie nationale française