Peire Rogier

Peire Rogier (born c. 1145; fl. 1160 – 1180) was a twelfth-century Auvergnat troubadour and cathedral canon from Clermont.

Quotes

• Tant ai mon cor en joy assis,
  per que no puesc mudar no'n chan,
  que joys m'a noirit pauc e gran;
  e ses luy non seria res,
  qu'assatz vey que tot l'als qu'om fay
  abaiss' e sordey' e dechai,
  mas so qu'amors e joys soste.
  • My heart is so fixed on joy
    that I cannot help but sing,
    for as a child and an adult, joy has nourished me.
    Without it, I’d be nothing.
    I see that everything else that people do
    degrades, dishonors, and defames
    if love and joy do not sustain it.
  • Poem 5, st. 1 (ed. Nicholson; tr. Cheyette)

External links

• Derek E. T. Nicholson, The Poems of the Troubadour Peire Rogier (Manchester UP, 1976)

• Fredric L. Cheyette, Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours (Cornell UP, 2001)