Uc de la Bacalaria

Uc de la Bacalaria

Uc de la Bacalaria was a Limousin troubadour from La Bachellerie near Uzerche, the home town of Gaucelm Faidit. According to his "vida", he was a jongleur who travelled infrequently and was hardly known. He composed "cansos", "tensos", one "alba", and one "descort". Six songs are surviving: one "canso", one "alba", and four "tensos" (three "partimens" and one "torneyamen"). According the "vida", he was courtly, capable, and learned.

Uc participated in a three-way "torneyamen" with Savaric de Malleo and Gaucelm Faidit.Markale, 98–99.] Savaric posed the dilemma: if a lady with three suitors gazes into the eyes of one, squeezes the hand of the other, and nudges the foot of the third, to whom did she show the truest affection? Uc's answer is that the suitor whose hand was grasped was her true love, for a lady's gaze can rest on anything. Uc wrote another "partimen" with Gaucelm and two others with Bertran de Sant Felitz.

Uc also wrote an erotic "alba", "Per grazir la bon' estrena", in which, like his contemporary Guiraut Riquier, he desires the dawn to arrive, in contrast to earlier troubadours, who always dreaded the dawn and the jealous husband. Both troubadours appear to have wished to revived the genre and Uc explicitly writes that "vuelh far alb' ab son novelh": "I want to make an "alba" with a new sound." [Monson, 264–265.]

Uc's only "canso" was "Ses totz enjans e ses fals'entendensa".

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* [http://www.brindin.com/pomaugau.htm "Gaucelm, tres jocs enamoratz"] , with translation by James H. Donalson.
*Egan, Margarita (ed. and trans.) "The Vidas of the Troubadours". New York: Garland, 1984. ISBN 0 8240 9437 9.
*Markale, Jean. "Courtly Love: The Path of Sexual Initiation". Inner Traditions/Bear & Company, 2000. ISBN 0 892 81771 2.
*Monson, Don A. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0038-7134%28199504%2970%3A2%3C255%3ATTLRA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U "The Troubadour's Lady Reconsidered Again."] "Speculum", Vol. 70, No. 2. (Apr., 1995), pp. 255–274.
*Riquer, Martín de. "Los trovadores: historia literaria y textos". 3 vol. Barcelona: Planeta, 1975.

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