Raimon d'Avinhon was a

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troubadour A troubadour (, ; ) 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 equivalent is usually called a ''trobairitz''. The tr ...

from

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. He wrote one surviving ''

sirventes The ''sirventes'' or ''serventes'' (), sometimes translated as "service song", was a genre of Old Occitan lyric poetry practiced by the troubadours. The name comes from ''sirvent'' ('serviceman'), from whose perspective the song is allegedly wr ...

'', "Sirvens sui avutz et arlotz", preserved in a manuscript of 1254. The ''sirventes'' is a long and humorous list of occupations he claims to have had, including ''bos meges, quant es locs'': "a good physician, when it's time". It has been speculated that he was the Raimon d'Avinhon who translated the ''Practica Chirurgiae'' of Ruggero da Salerno (Roger de Parma) into

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verse c. 1200 and that he was a physician. If it is correct that Raimon was a physician, then his poem appears to be in a category with the ''Dû de l'Herberie'' of

Rutebeuf Rutebeuf (or Rustebeuf) (fl. 1245 – 1285) was a French trouvère (poet-composers who worked in France's northern dialects). Early life He was born in the first half of the 13th century, possibly in Champagne (he describes conflicts in Troyes i ...

Sources

* Riquer, Martín de. ''Los trovadores: historia literaria y textos''. 3 vol. Barcelona: Planeta, 1975. {{authority control Musicians from Avignon 13th-century French troubadours Writers from Avignon