trouvères
- plural of trouvère.
Example Sentences
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It was not wonderful, therefore, that the trouvères should fly upon this spoil.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George
Directly, it taught the trouvères of Northern France and the poets of Spain and Italy prosody, and a certain amount of poetical style and tone; indirectly, or directly through France, it influenced England and Germany.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
The trouvères chose Charlemagne and his paladins as the heroes of their poems and romances, and these, composed for the most part in French in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were early circulated in Italy.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch
You will urge that he wakened Poetry not in England alone but all over Europe, in Dante before our Chaucer, in the trouvères and minnesingers as well as in our ballad-writers.
From On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Even the early troubadours and trouvères, poets and rhapsodists, loving to admire and enlarge and extol, are silent concerning the mountains.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa
