Peire Cardenal

Peire Cardenal was of Velay, of the city of Puy Notre Dame, and was sent as a boy to the canonry there. Farnell compares the audacity of his attacks on the Church with those of Walther von der Vogelweide.

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.