Guillem de l'Olivier
Guillem de l'Olivier d'Arle, also spelled Guilhem del Olivier, was a troubadour, probably active after 1260. He was from Provence, presumably the region around Arles, and he was also active in northern Italy. He was a prolific author of coblas esparsas, single-stanza poems, usually on a moral theme. The number of lines per poem vary from a low of four to a high of sixteen. Scholars Alfred Pillet and Henry Carstens, along with István Frank, counted 77 such pieces; while Oskar Schultz-Gora counted 79, and Alfred Jeanroy only 70.
A poem ascribed to a "Sir [En] G. de Lobeuier" in one chansonnier is commonly thought to belong to Guillem de l'Olivier, and some manuscripts also mistakenly call him "Gui" or "Guiraut". The unreliable Jean de Nostredame identified him with a certain Uc de Lobevier (Hugues de Lobières).
Coblas esparsas
- Tan no puesc legir ni pessar
- Fals' amor no si pot dir
- Tota dona c'amors vensa
- Donas, per cosselh vos dic
- Donas, crezetz mon prezic
- Mans se fenhon enamorat
- So nos retrais Marcabrus
- Homs que se rent de sa molher gilos
- Pros dona enamorada
- Alcus homes sai entre nos
- Qui ama cortezia
- D'omes vey c'an a totz jorns mens
- Qui s'azauta d'enuetz faire
- Qui sap gardar fach e dich de secret
- Jocx e putanaria
- Qui vol aver ganre d'amicx
- Seneca que fon fom sabens
- Tant es lo mons costumatz
- Ben corteza conoissensa
- Qui se volgues cosselhar
- Tot hom me par be noiritz
- Catre cauzas son fort nominativas
- Ricx hom qu'enten en gran nobleza
- Escrich truep en un nostr' actor
- Ieu non tenc home per amic
- Si vols far ver' esproansa
- S'us homs sabia mal ses be
- Motas veguadas s'endeve
- Catre maneiras son de gens
- Senca dis que saup philozophia
- Entr' amicx et enemicx
- Auzit ay dir manta[s] sazo[s]
- Bon es saver acampar
- Riqueza grans fan far manta falhensa
- Sert es qui a mal vezi
- Bona fin fai qui ab bon albres lia
- Cobes e larcx aug cais tot jorn repenre
- Ieu ai vist home plaguat
- Si fos tan bos segles com sol
- Escrig (o) truep en Salomo
- D'omes truep que donan cosselh
- Tres enemicx principals
- Aisi com per aventura
- Mal temps fai reconoysser dieu
- Ieu coseguiey temps e sazo
- Mals tratz don(a) alegransa
- Tal home am que sos aibs nom azaula
- Homs ben parlans deu mais entendre
- De razon es e de natura
- Aitan ben tanh per dever
- Trop parlars fay desmentir
- Hom que per pauc de profiech
- Totz homs deu esser curos
- Ieu me tenc a gran plazer
- Trop voluntatz tol la vista
- Pieitz fa un petit de mal
- Us homs es c'a ajustat
- Si per chantan esjauzir
- Bona fes e mala
- Alcun son trop de fama
- Gauch e solatz e cortezia
- Dieus donet comandamen
- Totz hom se deu donar suenh
- Per respiech d'alcun befach
- Bos noirimens dona regla
- Sieu auzes dire a ma guiza
- Sens e sabers e conoissenza
- Hon mais m'esfors cascun jorn d'aver vida
- Fals semblans e mot deslials
- Tart o tost son doas cauzas per natura
- En totz afars tanh cortezia
- Hom deu lauzar son amic
- Hoc e no son dui contrari
- Tot enaisi com peira preziosa
- Qui en anel d'aur fai veir' encastonar
Editions
- Schultz-Gora, Oskar, ed. "Die 'coblas triadas' des Guilhem de l'Olivier d'Arle". Provenzalische Studien, I. Schriften der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft in Straßburg, 37. Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1919 : 24–82.
External links
- Complete works at trobar.org