Rigat de Barbezieu, or Rigat from Barbezieu ( Rigaut (also Richart or Richartz ) de Berbezilh (also Berbezill or Barbesiu ); fr. Rigaud de Barbezieux , lat. Rigaudus de Berbezillo ); OK. 1120 - after 1163, creative activity 1140-1163) - troubadour.
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Biography
One of the earliest troubadours. Small nobleman from Barbezieu. About fifteen of his works are known, including one cry and nine or ten canons . Some researchers consider the most probable period of his work from 1170 to 1215 . According to his biography , the reliability of which, however, is doubtful, Barbezier was capable and generous, by the nature of timidity, very skilled in composing songs. In his work, he was committed to metaphors borrowed from medieval bestiaries . It is also said that Rigaut fell in love with his wife Gaufridus de Tonai (possibly the granddaughter of Joffre Rüdel ) and sang her in his works under the senial Miellz-de-Domna ("The Best of Donnes"). After her death, he left for Spain and spent the last years at the court of Diego López Díaz de Haro, the famous patron saint of troubadours.
It is generally accepted that Rigaut de Barbezieu was from a family related to Joffre Rüdel through the counts of Angouleme and at the end of his life (after 1157) entered the monastery.
Literature
Rigaout de Barbezieu // Beautiful Lady. From medieval lyrics. - M.: Moscow Worker, 1984, S.S. 38 - 41.
Egan, Margarita (ed. And trans.) The Vidas of the Troubadours. New York: Garland, 1984. ISBN 0-8240-9437-9 .
Gaunt, Simon, and Kay, Sarah. "Appendix I: Major Troubadours" (pp. 279–291). The Troubadours: An Introduction. Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay, edd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0 521 574730 .
Varvaro, A. Rigaut de Berbezilh: Liriche. Bari: Biblioteca di filologia romanza. 1960.