Trovadores

Information about the life and work of Juan Alfonso de Baena, a Spanish troubadour of the 14th and 15th centuries.

Some 1680 cantigas (songs), written in Galician-Portuguese between the 12th and 14th centuries, have survived in a handful of cancioneiros (song books), the most important of which were discovered in the 18th and 19th centuries. The language of the cantigas reflects the vernacular spoken north and south of the Minho River, which divides Galicia from Portugal, and, for reasons that are still obscure, was the preferred idiom of lyric poets in every Peninsular region except Catalonia. This webpage includes a few examples of trovador poetry, and translations.

Selected works translated into modern Italian.