Arnaut Daniels (fl. 1180 – 1200)
PC 29.6
Ms. Troubadour G, Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana R 71 sup. [late 13th century], fol. 73v
Le Miroir de Musique
Miriam Trevisan, voice
Jacob Lawrence, voice
Baptiste Romain, vielle
Chansson do’ill mot son plan e prim
farai puois que botono’ill vim,
e l’aussor sim
son de color
de maintha flor,
e verdeia la fuelha,
e’ill chan e’ill bralh
sono a l’ombralh
dels auzels per la bruelha.
Songs whose words are sweet and easy
I will write, now that the willows bud,
and the highest peaks
wear the colours
of many flowers,
and the leaf is green,
and songs, and cries of birds
echo in the shadow
of the loom.
Famed as a master of the trobar ric, Arnaut Daniel left us this relatively straight-forward canso in coblas capfinidas.
Dante Alighieri, who frequently quotes Arnaut Daniel in De vulgari eloquentia, included him among the lustful in the seventh circle of p