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3 unusual facts about Raimon Vidal de Bezaudun


Raimon Vidal de Bezaudun

Jofre de Foixà wrote an expanded version, the Regles de trobar, for James II of Sicily.

Vidal also took pains to argue for the superiority of lemosí (or Lemozi, i.e., Occitan) over other vernaculars, prompting the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri to write a De Vulgari Eloquentia justifying the use of the Tuscan vernacular as opposed to the Occitan.

He began his career as a joglar and he spent his formative years at the court of Hug de Mataplana, which he often recalls fondly in his poems and songs.



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