The Troubadours by H.J. Chaytor
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VII. THE TROUBADOURS IN ITALY VIII. THE TROUBADOURS IN SPAIN IX. PROVENCAL INFLUENCE IN GERMANY, FRANCE, AND ENGLAND BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES INDEX [Transcriptor's note: Page numbers from the original document have been posted in the right margin to maintain the relevance of the index references.} THE TROUBADOURS [1] CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY Few literatures have exerted so profound an influence upon the literary history of other peoples as the poetry of the troubadours. Attaining the highest point of technical perfection in the last half of the twelfth and the early years of the thirteenth century, Provençal poetry was already popular in Italy and Spain when the Albigeois crusade devastated the south of France and scattered the troubadours abroad or forced them to seek other means of livelihood. The earliest lyric poetry of Italy is Provençal in all but language; almost as much may be said of Portugal |
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