Peire Espanhol ( 1150 – c. 1220) was a

Limousin Limousin (; oc, Lemosin ) is a former administrative region of southwest-central France. On 1 January 2016, it became part of the new administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It comprised three departments: Corrèze, Creuse, and Haute-Vienn ...

troubadour A troubadour (, ; oc, trobador ) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350). Since the word ''troubadour'' is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a ''trobairit ...

with three extant ''

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'', including one religious ''

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'', "Ar levatz sus, francha corteza gans!". His works have appeared, edited and with

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translations, in Peter T. Ricketts, "Les poésies de Peire Espanhol: édition critique et traduction" in ''Studies in Honor of Hans-Erich Keller: Medieval French and Occitan Literature and Romance Linguistics'', Rupert T. Pickens, ed. (Kalamazoo, 1993), pp. 383–95.

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