Gaucelm Faidit

Gaucelm Faidit was of Uzerche in Limousin. The Life Farnell translates says he sang worse than any man alive yet made many good melodies and canzones, and became a jongleur after losing everything at dice.

The verse in this selection is Ida Farnell's English version in The Lives of the Troubadours (London: David Nutt, 1896), where it stands beside a prose Life of the poet; the prose Life is not reproduced here. The dates are those Farnell prints for the period in which the poet was active, and the Old Occitan original is not included.