Raimon de Cornet

Raimon de Cornet

Raimon de Cornet or Ramon de Cornet (fl. 1324–1340) was a fourteenth-century Toulousain priest, friar, grammarian, poet, and troubadour. He was a prolific author of verse; more than forty of his poems survive, most in Occitan but two in Latin. He also wrote letters, a didactic poem (sometimes classed as the last "ensenhamen"), a grammar, and some treatises on computation (i.e. practical mathematics). He was the "last of the troubadours" and represented "l'esprit le plus brillant" (the most brilliant spirit) of the "Toulousain School". [Paden, "The Troubadours and the Albigensian Crusade", p. 181.] He appears in contemporary documents with the titles "En" (sir, also "mossen") and "Frare" (brother, also "fray", "frai", or "frayre").

Raimon's "magnum opus" is his "Doctrinal de trobar" (doctrines of composition) composed around 1324 and dedicated to Peter IV of Aragon. The "Doctrinal" follows the grammar put forward later by the Consistori del Gay Saber of Guilhem Molinier and it is structurally identical to Guilhem's "Leys d'amor". Both works spend a good deal of space quoting illustrative passages from the greatest troubadours of the past. The "Doctrinal" is considered the first work of the "Gay Saber" tradition. In a passage praising the pleasure of poetry, Raimon lists many of the traditional genres, which he and others like him had helped to define:

Raimon strongly supported the Crusaders and bitterly opposed the clergy, Avignon Papacy, and eventually Philip VI of France. He wrote two "Crusade songs". The earlier one was composed in 1332, when Philip VI announced his intention of going on Crusade in July. Raimon suggests that the king should impose a tax on those men who do not join the Crusade, and in any case those who remain in France should pray two or three times daily for those who do go to the Holy Land. He notes that missionaries will inevitably accompany the host and attempt to convert the "Saracens". The second song, composed in 1336, is an attack on Philip for not completing his promised Crusade.

Raimon's poem "Quar mot orne fan vers" contains the earliest reference to basse danse. In describing the profession of the jongleurs he notes that they rapidly pick up the "bassas dansas". This reference predates any other by a century. [Aubrey, "References", p. 119.]

Eighteen of Raimon's lyric poems are preserved in the final, unfinished folios of the Cançoner Gil, known as troubadour MS "Sg" or "Z", now MS 146 in the Biblioteca de Catalunya in Barcelona. In 1341, possibly in Raimon's lifetime, the Catalan poet Joan de Castellnou wrote a "Glosari al Doctrinal de Ramon de Cornet", a gloss on the "Doctrinal". __NOTOC__

Works in the Cançoner Gil

;"Canços"
*"Al mes d'abril can veyrez nutg los camps"
*"Le mieus saber ioy deziran se pert"
*"Ara·s fos hieu si malautz e cotxatz"
*"Intrar vuyll en guerrejar si puch tan"
*"Cars motz gentils fons e grans mars d'apteza"
*"Cent castels e cent tors"
*"En aycel tems com no sen fretg ni cauma" (titled "Saumesca")
*"Amors corals me fay deios un cas" (called a "canso");"Sirventes"
*"Jus en la font de cobeytat se bayna"
*"Totz temps azir falsetatz ez engan"
*"Qui dels escachs vol belamen iogar" ("com deu hom jogar als escachs");"Vers" ("truth" poems)
*"Car vey lo mon de mal pugat al cim"
*"Pauc homes vey de sen tan freyturos"
*"Raso ni sens no pot vezer lo moble"
*"Ben es vilas e mals e rustichs"
*"Ab tot mon sen d'amors si pusch faray";"Tenço"
*"Pres mes talens d'un pech partimen far" with Arnau Alaman, "donzel d'Albi";Unclassified
*"A Sent Marcel d'Albeges, prop de Salaç"

References

*Aubrey, Elizabeth (1989). [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0001-6241%28198905%2F08%291%3A61%3A2%3C110%3ARTMIOO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W "References to Music in Old Occitan Literature."] "Acta Musicologica", 61:2 (May–Aug.), pp. 110–149.
*Aubrey, Elizabeth (1996). "The Music of the Troubadours". Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0 253 21389 4.
*Auroux, Sylvain (2000). "History of the Language Sciences". Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3 110 11103 9.
*Desmet, Piet (2000). "The History of Linguistic and Grammatical Praxis". Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9 042 90884 X.
*Paden, William D. (1995). "The Troubadours and the Albigensian Crusade: A Long View." "Romance Philology", 49:2 (Nov.), pp. 168–191
*Paterson, Linda (2003). [http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:-ZSZa_T9NfgJ:www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/french/about/staff/lp/lyrical.lus+www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/french/about/staff/lp/lyrical.lus&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ca "Lyric allusions to the crusades and the Holy Land."] Colston Symposium.
*Zeeman, Nicolette (1988). [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-7937%28198810%2983%3A4%3C820%3ATLALAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2 "The Lover-Poet and Love as the Most Pleasing "Matere" in Medieval French Love Poetry."] "The Modern Language Review", 83:4 (Oct.), pp. 820–842.

External links

* [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/14Ccornet.html Raimon de Cornet (14th cent. troubadour): Poem Criticizing the Avignon Papacy] at Medieval Sourcebook
* [http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/78036287651236130932457/index.htm Cançoner provençal (Cançoner Gil)] at the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

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