Chanso do·ill mot son plan e prim

Arnaut Daniels (fl. 1180 – 1200) PC 29.6 Ms. Troubadour G, Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana R 71 sup. [late 13th century], fol. 73v Le Miroir de Musique Miriam Trevisan, voice Jacob Lawrence, voice Baptiste Romain, vielle Chansson do’ill mot son plan e prim farai puois que botono’ill vim, e l’aussor sim son de color de maintha flor, e verdeia la fuelha, e’ill chan e’ill bralh sono a l’ombralh dels auzels per la bruelha. Songs whose words are sweet and easy I will write, now that the willows bud, and the highest peaks wear the colours of many flowers, and the leaf is green, and songs, and cries of birds echo in the shadow of the loom. Famed as a master of the trobar ric, Arnaut Daniel left us this relatively straight-forward canso in coblas capfinidas. Dante Alighieri, who frequently quotes Arnaut Daniel in De vulgari eloquentia, included him among the lustful in the seventh circle of p