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Definition of Sirventes
1. sirvente [n] - See also: sirvente
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sirventes
Literary usage of Sirventes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Old Provençal Versification by Frank M. Chambers (1985)
"Does it mean 'the kind of sirventes a joglar would write, praising the virtuous
and blaming the doers of evi1'? This does not seem materially different from ..."
2. An Introduction to Old Provençal Versification by Frank M. Chambers (1985)
"We shall have occasion to discuss the vocabulary of this poem later on, in
connection with its author's "difficult style." vi. sirventes. ..."
3. Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative to the by Richard Ryan (1826)
"sirventes OF THE TROUBADOURS, THE sirventes, or satires, of the Troubadours, were
compositions directed against the vices or follies of the age, ..."
4. The Troubadours: A History of Provençal Life and Literature in the Middle Ages by Francis Hueffer (1878)
"According to its subject-matter the sirventes may be divided into four important
groups : the personal, the social-and-political, the moral, ..."
5. The Troubadours: A History of Provençal Life and Literature in the Middle Ages by Francis Hueffer (1878)
"According to its subject-matter the sirventes may be divided into four important
groups : the personal, the social-and-political, the moral, ..."
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