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3 unusual facts about Raimon Vidal de Bezaudun


Raimon Vidal de Bezaudun

Jofre de Foixà wrote an expanded version, the Regles de trobar, for James II of Sicily.

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Vidal also took pains to argue for the superiority of lemosí (or Lemozi, i.e., Occitan) over other vernaculars, prompting the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri to write a De Vulgari Eloquentia justifying the use of the Tuscan vernacular as opposed to the Occitan.

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He began his career as a joglar and he spent his formative years at the court of Hug de Mataplana, which he often recalls fondly in his poems and songs.



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