Berenguer d'Anoia or de Noya (fl. c. 1300) was a

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from Majorca. He wrote the ''Mirall de trobar'', an

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, grammatical, and rhetorical treatise in the tradition of the ''Razos de trobar'' of

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and the ''Regles de trobar'' of

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, a genre always popular in

country. Berenguer's parents were noble Catalans, originally from the village of

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, who settled at

Inca The Inca Empire (also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire), called ''Tawantinsuyu'' by its subjects, (Quechua for the "Realm of the Four Parts", "four parts together" ) was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The admin ...

in Majorca following its

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. This information concerning his family and origins is found hidden in his own writings in the form of an acrostic which states: The ''Mirall'' commences with a prologue explaining its division into four chapters that study rhetorical forms and major poetic errors. It begins thus: Everything is illustrated with examples drawn from the compositions of previous troubadours, but not always in the correct form. Berenguer himself does not have any work to his own name, though some otherwise unattributable fragments from his treatise are assumed to be his work. The following short section is taken from his illustration of the religious ''

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'': : : : : : : : : : : The Institut Berenguer d’Anoia, founded in Inca in 1970, was named after the troubadour.

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Els trobadors. Trobadors catalans. Berenguer d'Anoia (cap a 1300).Institut Berenguer d’Anoia.
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