Raimon d'Avinhon

Raimon d'Avinhon was a Provençal troubadour from Avignon. He wrote one surviving "sirventes", "Sirvens sui avutz et arlotz", preserved in a manuscript of 1254. The "sirventes" is a long and humorous list of occupations he claims to have had, including "bos meges, quant es locs": "a good physician, when it's time". It has been speculated that Raimon was the physician who translated the "Practica Chirurgiae" of Ruggero da Salerno (Roger de Parma) into Occitan c. 1200. If it is correct that Raimon was a physician, then his poem appears to be in a category with the "Dû de l'Herberie" of Rutebeuf.

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*Riquer, Martín de. "Los trovadores: historia literaria y textos". 3 vol. Barcelona: Planeta, 1975.