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Peirol Quotes (1160-1220)
About Peirol
Peirol or Peiròl (born c. 1160, fl. 1188–1222/1225, died in the 1220s) was an Auvergnat troubadour who wrote mostly cansos of courtly love in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Thirty-four surviving poems written in Occitan have been attributed to him; of these, seventeen (sixteen of them love songs) have surviving melodies. He is sometimes called Peirol d'Auvergne or Peiròl d'Auvèrnha, and erroneously Pierol.
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“Gran talen ai qu'un baisar
Li pogues tolre o emblar;
É si pueis s'en iraissia,
Volentiers lo li rendria.”
Li pogues tolre o emblar;
É si pueis s'en iraissia,
Volentiers lo li rendria.”
About Peirol
Peirol or Peiròl (born c. 1160, fl. 1188–1222/1225, died in the 1220s) was an Auvergnat troubadour who wrote mostly cansos of courtly love in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Thirty-four surviving poems written in Occitan have been attributed to him; of these, seventeen (sixteen of them love songs) have surviving melodies. He is sometimes called Peirol d'Auvergne or Peiròl d'Auvèrnha, and erroneously Pierol.