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Events

*''Romans de mondana vida'' of Folquet de Lunel written *A bloody incident mars the feast of the Ascension in

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and the troubadour

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composes ''Quossi moria'' to lament it *

Paolo Lanfranchi da Pistoia Paolo Lanfranchi da Pistoia ( oc, Paulo Ianfranchi de Pistoia; fl. 1282–1295) was a noted Italian poet who wrote in both the Italian and Occitan languages. He is thus sometimes described as a troubadour. A native of Pistoia—he was a major ...

composes the only known surviving Occitan language

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, ''Valenz Senher, rei dels Aragones'' for

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during the height of the War of the Sicilian Vespers

Deaths

* Sturla Þórðarson (born

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), Icelandic politician/chieftain and writer; author of

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* Alfonso X of Castile (born

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), Castilian monarch and writer of Galician-Portuguese lyrics 13th-century poetry Poetry