Carmen Mauri (song of a Maur) is an anonymous Polish

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poem written in

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. It tells the story of Polish

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Piotr Włast and his rebellion against Prince

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. The poem has survived only in fragmentary form. Its author and exact date of creation is unknown, it is presumed that the author was a

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monk and the poem was written between the second half of the 12th century and the beginning of the 14th century.

Bibliography

* * * "Cronica Petri Comitis Poloniae" together with the "Carmen Mauri", ed. M. Plezia, Kraków 1951. IHL Series 2 volume 3. *''Mały słownik pisarzy polskich'', 1969
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