Aimeric de Sarlat

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Aimeric de Sarlat (fl. c. 1200) was a troubadour from Sarlat in the Périgord. According to his vida he rose by talent from the rank of jongleur to troubadour, but composed only one song, though four cansos survive under his name.

The sole topic with which his surviving work is concerned is courtly love and he was a worthy imitator of the great Bernart de Ventadorn. A fifth canso, "Fins e leials e senes tot engan", attributed in the chansonniers to Aimeric de Belenoi, has been assigned to Aimeric de Sarlat by modern scholarship. Partly this is because it is directed to Elvira de Subirats, wife of Ermengol VIII of Urgell, to whom Aimeric de Sarlat addressed his "Ja non creirai q'afanz ni cossiriers". An example of Aimeric's poetry:

Si saubesson parlan mei oill,
e.l cor, don tan soven sospir,
tot saupras quals son mei consir;
car la boca non a ges vassalatge
de vos dire zo don lo cor languis. . .
If you knew to speak to my eyes,
and to my heart, which so often sighs,
soon you would know all my worries;
for this the mouth has no authority
to tell you for what the heart languishes. . .

Aimeric was probably patronised by William VIII of Montpellier. One of his works may have inspired Denis of Portugal to compose a poem in Portuguese.

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