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Peirol
Sign in to savethumb|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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- Die Lieder Peires von Auvergne
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- Male
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- Auvergne
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- 1188
- Active to
- 1222
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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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- 1221-01-01
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- 1160-01-01
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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.