• Look up senhal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A senhal is a codename used to address ladies, patrons and friends in the Old Occitan poetry of the...
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    inspiration for the metaphysical figure "Clizia" in his poetry, a coded senhal particularly prominent in his second book, Le Occasioni (The Occasions)...
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    occasioni contains numerous allusions to Brandeis, here called Clizia (a senhal). Franco Fortini judged Montale's Ossi di seppia and Le occasioni the high-water...
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  • dedicated to a certain friend and jongleur known only by the affectionate senhal Ardit. Generally he wrote in the trobar ric genre, and in his leu chanso...
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    (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ filip dy sɛɲal]; Occitan: Sant Filipe deu Senhal) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern...
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  • poem has two tornadas, one to Mon Ric(h) Thesaur (my rich treasure), a senhal (code name) for the Virgin Mary and another to the seven lords (senyor set)...
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  • half of a tenzone. Compiuta may be her given name, but more probably a senhal (code name). Her full name translates "the accomplished young lady from...
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  • OCBC Arena Hall 1, Kallang Referees: Tan Yee Nee (SIN), Chu Chu Wei Chuen (MAS), Senhal Vidyadhar Bendke (IND)...
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  • poem, Lanfranc connected Jacme with a Na Flors-de-lis (or Fiordiligi), a senhal for an unnamed Genoese woman, whom he submits to the Jacme's judgement....
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  • and "La clara lutz del bel jorn"—Guillem Ramon celebrates a person by the senhal (or nickname) Sobreluenh ("Over-a-distance"), but whether this is his lady...
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    one tenso. His treatment of courtly love was somewhat original. Peire's senhal or nickname, Ricas Novas, means "interesting stories" (literally "rich news")...
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    later associated with Peter II of Aragon and Alfonso VIII of Castile. His senhal for Raymond VI was Audiart. Raimon has been identified with a person of...
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    dissensions among the Angevins in order to keep his independence. He gave them senhals (nicknames): Henry the Young King was Mariniers (Sailor), Geoffrey of Brittany...
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  • Barcelona: Editorial Empúries, 1997. L'autor i la histèrica Girona: Ed. Senhal, 1998. Una vida regalada - Les falses memòries d'un aprenent d'escriptor...
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    jutjamen, / A cel que la farà plus neta / Donarem una violeta / De fin aur, en senhal d'onor, / No regardan pretz ni valor, / Estamen ni condició / De senhor...
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  • warning to a girl, either Jana delgada (delicate Joanna) or Na Delgada, a senhal meaning "delicate lady". The line jana delgada (read either as Jana delgada...
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  • (Resplendent Lady) mentioned in the second tornada of his earlier poem. This senhal (code name) refers to an unknown lady of high rank. The main theme of the...
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    Peire also had ties to Sardinia. He dedicated his D'un serventes faire to a senhal Malgrat de toz, which has been identified as Barisone II of Arborea, who...
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  • anonymous lady, a lady known by the senhal (code name) "Na Mondina" (Worldly Lady), and another known by the senhal "N'Anguaneyritz" (Lady Liar). In the...
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  • Gnostic name for Jesus Christ, but perhaps just a colourfully orthodox senhal (signifier) for God. Parallel to the colloquial/religious lexical dichotomy...
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  • vanitats (Riquer, 682). Arnau may have mentioned the queen passingly under the senhal (pet name) "Dolç Talan" (Riquer, 682). Incipitario di Arnau March, with...
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    "tenso" with his own mantle. Gui vies for the identity of the "Esperdut" (a senhal) who composed three poems: a canso, a partimen with Pons de Monlaur, and...
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    celebrates the beauty and character of Beatrice, whom he frequently calls by the senhal (a "sign", as in a nickname) Mon Restaur ("My Refreshment" in Occitan)....
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  • Ermengarda and Aimeric. The phrase Tort-n'avetz ("you are wrong") is a senhal ("signal"), a disguised reference, usually to the poet's lady, in this case...
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    troubadour invent poems about her." He referred to her as Miellz-de-Domna, a senhal meaning "Best of Ladies", in at least four of his works. Though he sang...
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    prole. Imitating the troubadours, all three participants took nicknames (senhals). Zambono went by Bos (ox), while Lovato was Lupus (wolf) and Mussato Asellus...
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    his wife also to Sordello, who addressed her in several poems under the senhals (epithets) N'Agradavit and Restaur. The French painter Adolphe Joseph Thomas...
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  • to sleep (Riquer, 642). Jordi is mentioned in one of Luys' poems by the senhal (code name) Castelhs d'honor (Rubió i Balaguer, 308). Riquer, 643, cites...
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    unidentified Na Beatriu ('Lady Beatrice'). He refers to Beatriu under the senhals Loindan' Amor and Passabeutats. He imitates the style of the troubadours...
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    love. The composers of traditional maldits often refer to their women by senhals (code names) like Na Maliciosa (Lady Malicious) and Na Mondina (Worldly...
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