From the album Canzoneta, va! (Jongleurs and Troubadours between Italy and Provence): Anc al temps d’Artus ni d’ara
Lyrics: Aimeric de Peguilhan (...1170-1230...) and Sordel (...1200-1269...), I-Fl, ms. Plut.41.42, fol. 55r, year 1301-1310
Recorded at Morimondo Abbey
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“Sordel was from Mantua, the son of a poor knight". He was born at the end of the 12th century and he learned to compose and sing both his own compositions and those of many other poets whose words and music he learned by heart, as was the custom at the time. He wrote only and solely in
Provençal, pursuing the dream of the romantic life that poets-jongleurs-knights of southern France led, and succeeding completely at it. He associated with the most important courts of northern Italy, Provence and Spain, but in his youth he was no stranger among inns and taverns; the tenso “Anc al temps d'Artus ni dara” , composed around 1220 by him and Aimeric de Peguilhan, recounts of an event that occurred in one of such occasions. Aimeric, older than Sordel, taunts him for having been hit so hard by a jug on his head that, he writes, it was since the times of King Arthur that nobody had seen such a strong blow, from which Sordel was saved only by his bizarre hairdo. The reply of young Sordel is furious: through his verses he depicts Aimeric as a boastful and miserly old man, adding that whoever sees him suffers a fate worse than death!
Still, there was no animosity between the two, as in a rant against the horde of novice, inexperienced jongleurs invading northern Italian courts, Aimeric, mentioning Sordel, states he has more talent than the rest of this new generation, and through the years he even began to refer to him with reverence.
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