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Vida (Old Occitan:) is the usual term for a brief prose biography, written in Old Occitan, of a troubadour or trobairitz. [citation needed] The word vida means "life" in Occitan languages; they are short prose biographies of the troubadours, and they are found in some chansonniers, along with the works of the author they describe.
Occitan (English: / ˈ ɒ k s ɪ t ən,-t æ n,-t ɑː n /; [12] [13] Occitan pronunciation: [utsiˈta, uksiˈta]), [a] also known as lenga d'òc (Occitan: [ˈleŋɡɒ ˈðɔ(k)] ⓘ; French: langue d'oc) by its native speakers, sometimes also referred to as Provençal, is a Romance language spoken in Southern France, Monaco, Italy's Occitan Valleys, as well as Spain's Val d'Aran in Catalonia ...
The vida is highly laudatory of Ferrarino's contributions to Occitan poetry. "[H]e understood better how to invent (trobaire) poems in Provençal [i.e. Occitan] than any other man who was ever in Lombardy," [2] or so his biographer says. He was also reputed for his understanding of the language, for his writing (probably including penmanship ...
Occitan literature (referred to in older texts as Provençal literature) is a body of texts written in Occitan, mostly in the south of France.It was the first literature written in a Romance language and inspired the rise of vernacular literature throughout medieval Europe.
A razo (Old Occitan:, literally "cause", "reason") was a short piece of Occitan prose detailing the circumstances of a troubadour composition. A razo normally introduced an individual poem, acting as a prose preface and explanation; it might, however, share some of the characteristics of a vida (a biography of a troubadour, describing his origins, his loves, and his works) and the boundary ...
Like all Lombard troubadours, he composed in the Occitan language. Eighteen of his works survive. [3] According to his vida, while travelling with a large band of merchants to the Byzantine Empire, they were captured by the Republic of Genoa, which was then at war with the Republic of Venice, and taken prisoner to Genoa. [4]
According to his vida, he was a canon of Maguelonne. [3] A canon and magister of the name Deodatus de Pradas or Pratis appears in many documents from Rodez in the same time period. [2] Some scholars believe it is not likely that Daude was a canon at all, [3] while some presume him to have been a canon, not at Maguelonne, but Santa Maria in ...
3 languages. Català; Italiano ... Vida (Occitan literary form) This page was last edited on 12 December 2016, at 12:41 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...