Peire d'Alvernhe

Peire d'Alvernhe as an old man.

Peire d'Alvernhe or d'Alvernha[1] (Pèire in modern Occitan; b. c. 1130) was an Auvergnat troubadour (active 1149–1170) with twenty-one[2] or twenty-four[3][4] surviving works. He composed in an "esoteric" and "formally complex" style known as the trobar clus. He stands out as the earliest troubadour mentioned by name in Dante's Divine Comedy and De vulgari eloquentia.[2][4][5][6]

  1. ^ In French his name is Pierre d'Auvergne.
  2. ^ a b Gaunt and Kay, 287.
  3. ^ Egan, 72.
  4. ^ a b Aubrey, The Music of the Troubadours, 8.
  5. ^ Bjork, Robert E. (ed.) (2010). "Peire d’Alvernhe" In The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press.
  6. ^ Gaunt, Simon (2005 [1995]). "Peire D'Alvernhe" In The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford University Press.