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thumb|right|Peirol, from a 13th-century chansonnier Peirol or Peiròl (, ; born c. 1160, fl. 1188–1222/1225, died in the 1220s) was an Auvergnat troubadour who wrote mostly cansos of courtly love in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Thirty-four surviving poems written in Occitan have been attributed to him; of these, seventeen (sixteen of them love songs) have surviving melodies. He is sometimes called '''Peirol d'Auvergne or Peiròl d'Auvèrnha, and erroneously Pierol'''.

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Peirol (birth ca. 1160, known in 1188–1222/1225, death in the 1220s) was an Auvergnat troubadour who wrote mostly cansos of courtly love in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Thirty-four surviving poems written in Occitan have been attributed to him; of these, seventeen (sixteen of them love songs) have surviving melodies. He is sometimes called Peirol d'Auvergne or Peiròl d'Auvèrnha, and erroneously Pierol. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Peirol">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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  • Gran talen ai qu'un baisarLi pogues tolre o emblar;É si pueis s'en iraissia,Volentiers lo li rendria.

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Peirol
date of death
1221-01-01
date of birth
1160-01-01
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  • Biography
  • Courtly love
  • Crusading songs
  • Bibliography
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thumb|right|Peirol, from a 13th-century chansonnier Peirol or Peiròl (, ; born c. 1160, fl. 1188–1222/1225, died in the 1220s) was an Auvergnat troubadour who wrote mostly cansos of courtly love in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Thirty-four surviving poems written in Occitan have been attributed to him; of these, seventeen (sixteen of them love songs) have surviving melodies. He is sometimes called '''Peirol d'Auvergne or Peiròl d'Auvèrnha, and erroneously Pierol'''.

== Biography == Not much is known of his life, and any attempt to establish his biography from a reading of his poems is soundly rejected by the most recent scholarship.

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