%0 Journal Article
%T Guillem Peire de Cazals, ¡°Be¡¤m plagr¡¯ueymais qu¡¯ab vos dona¡¤m valgues¡± (BdT 227.6)
%A Alessio Collura
%J Lecturae Tropatorum
%D 2011
%I Universit¨¤ di Napoli Federico II
%X This paper proposes a new edition with commentary of the poem ¡°Be¡¤m plagr¡¯ueymais qu¡¯ab vos, dona, ¡¤m valgues¡± by Guillem Peire de Cazals and represents a first critical and hermeneutical reassessment of the poetry of the troubadour from Cahors, that has long been neglected. The text presents the classical structure of a love-story (springtime exordium, singing brought on by love, the theme of improvement, courting with no hope of a reward, a request for merc¨¦) and invites the fin aman to be patient. The song is examined from the viewpoint of its metrical and stylistic relations to other troubadour poems (Bernart de Ventadorn, ¡°Can par la flors josta¡¤l vert folh¡± [BdT 70.41] and ¡°La dousa votz ai auzida¡± [BdT 70.23] and Lanfranc Cigala, ¡°Ioios d¡¯amor farai de ioi senblan¡± [BdT 282.12]), and represents an early example of the mannerisms and experimental tendencies that characterize Guillem Peire¡¯s poems. The article also attempts to date the composition to the twenties or thirties of the 13th century.
%K Guillem Peire de Cazals
%K Troubadours
%K Old Occitan
%K Textual criticism
%K Interpretation
%U http://www.lt.unina.it/Collura-2011.pdf