Raimon de (las) Salas or la Sala was a Provençal

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probably of the 1220s/1230s. His short ''

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'' survives. He left behind four or five poems, but he must have composed more, since he is ''vida'' records his composition of ''

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'', '' albas'', and '' retroensas''. Along with Ferrari da Ferrara, he is the only troubadour known to have tried his hand at the ''retroensa''. Raimon was a

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from

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.Egan, 98. He may have served at the court of Hugh II des Baux, viscount of Marseille, from 1193 to 1240. He mentions Raimbalda des Baux in one of his poems. His ''vida'' records that he was neither well known nor esteemed. Two of Raimon's ''tensos'' were composed with women, including ''Si.m fos graziz mos chanz, eu m'esforcera'', which has a modern English translation by Meg Bogin. Raimon also composed a ''

partimen The ''partimen'' (; ca, partiment ; also known as ''partia'' or ''joc partit'') is a cognate form of the French jeu-parti (plural ''jeux-partis''). It is a genre of Occitan lyric poetry composed between two troubadours, a subgenre of the ''tenso'' ...

'' with an otherwise unknown Bertran, who proposed the dilemma: who are better at making war, feasts, and gifts, the

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or Provençals?Paterson, 6. Raimon praises his compatriots and puts down Lombard women as big and ugly.

Notes

Sources

*Bogin, Meg. ''The Women Troubadours''. Scarborough: Paddington, 1976. . *Bruckner, Matilda Tomaryn; Shepard, Laurie; and White, Sarah. ''Songs of the Women Troubadours''. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. . *Caudill, Tamara B. "Half the Man I Used to Be: Raimon de las Salas and the Trouble with the Trobairitz." ''Tenso'' 32:1 (2017), pp. 1–18. *Egan, Margarita, ed. ''The Vidas of the Troubadours''. New York: Garland, 1984. . *Paterson, Linda M. ''The World of the Troubadours: Medieval Occitan Society, c. 1100–c. 1300''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. . * Riquer, Martín de. ''Los trovadores: historia literaria y textos''. 3 vol. Barcelona: Planeta, 1975. 13th-century French troubadours Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown People from Provence {{france-poet-stub