Tremoleta

Tremoleta was a Catalan troubadour mentioned by the Monge de Montaudon in his satire of contemporary troubadours ("c".1195). No works attributed to him survive, but many scholars have suggested identifying him with one of the known troubadours. The Monge provides the following information:It is evident that Tremoleta was an old man when the Monge mocked him. If so, his composing career probably belongs to the mid-twelfth century. Manuel Milà i Fontanals, reading the first line as "entre Moleta.l catalas", proposed that Tremoleta was the Mola who exchanged "coblas" in a "tenso" with Guilhem Raimon. Giulio Bertoni suggested that the "t'bolet" that appears in a rubric before the obscene song "U fotaires que no fo amoros" may be Tremoleta, but Alfred Jeanroy suggest the more obvious identification with a Tribolet. In the eighteenth century, Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, assuming "Catala" to be his surname, identified Tremoleta with Arnaut Catalan. Martí de Riquer i Morera rejects all these.

References

*Riquer i Morera, Martí de (1964). "Història de la Literatura Catalana", vol. 1. Barcelona: Edicions Ariel.