Free Download Richard Zenith, "Cantigas: Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poems "
English | ISBN: 0691179395 | 2022 | 384 pages | PDF | 3 MB
A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and Spain

The rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros, or songbooks, in the nineteenth century. These compendiums revealed close to 1,700 songs, or cantigas, composed by around 150 troubadours from Galicia, Portugal, and Castile in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. In
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