his epistles are an extended commentary on a canso written ca. 1200 by Guiraut de
Calanso and a supplication to Alfonso the Wise for recognition of his poetic
achievements, with Alfonso’s declaration (no doubt written by Guiraut) awarding him the
title of doctor de trobar (“doctor of poetic composition”).
William D.Paden
[See also: TROUBADOUR POETRY]
Guiraut Riquier. Les épîtres de Guiraut Riquier, troubadour du XIIIe siècle, ed. Joseph Linskill.
London: Association Internationale d’Études Occitanes, 1985.
——. Guiraut Riquier: las cansos, ed. Ulrich Mölk. Heidelberg: Winter, 1962.
——. Guiraut Riquier, ed. S.L.H.Pfaff. In Die Werke der Troubadours in provenzalischer Sprache,
ed. Carl A.F.Mahn. 5 vols. Berlin: Duemmler, 1853, Vol. 4.
Bossy, Michel-André. “Cyclical Composition in Guiraut Riquier’s Book of Poems.” Speculum
66(1991):277–93.
——, ed. Tenso 9, 2(1994):103–76. Special issue on Guiraut Riquier.
Riquer, Martín de, ed. Los trovadores: historia literaria y textos. Barcelona: Planeta, 1975, Vol. 3,
pp. 1609–46.
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