Jacme Rovira
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Jacme Rovira (ˈʒagmə ruˈβiɾə, ˈdʒagme ruˈβiɾa; modern Catalan
spelling: Jaume Rovira) was a Catalan
poet who wrote in Occitan and competed within the Consistori del Gay Saber
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On 3 May 1386 Jacme participated in a partimen
with Bernat de Palaol
before the judges Ramon Galbarra and Germà de Gontaut
. The dilemma before the poets was this: if a knight loves a lady who does not return his affection while another dame, of equal merit, loves him, but to her he is indifferent, whom should he serve? Bernat defended the claim of the second lady, while Jacme of the first. The judges found in favour of Jacme.
Jacme also wrote a seventy-two line piece beginning Qui vol al mon de fis pretz fama granda.
Catalan language
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spelling: Jaume Rovira) was a Catalan
Catalan people
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poet who wrote in Occitan and competed within the Consistori del Gay Saber
Consistori del Gay Saber
The Consistori del Gay Saber , commonly called the Consistori de Tolosa today, was a poetic academy founded at Toulouse in 1323 to revive and perpetuate the lyric school of the troubadours.-Foundation:...
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On 3 May 1386 Jacme participated in a partimen
Partimen
The partimen is a genre of Occitan lyric poetry composed between two troubadours, a subgenre of the tenso or cobla exchange in which one poet presents a dilemma in the form of a question and the two debate the answer, each taking up a different side. It was especially popular in poetic contests....
with Bernat de Palaol
Bernat de Palaol
Bernat de Palaol or de Mallorques was a Catalan troubadour and merchant from Majorca. He was sometimes called lo mercader mallorquí ....
before the judges Ramon Galbarra and Germà de Gontaut
Germà de Gontaut
Germà de Gontaut was an Occitan poet and merchant.Germà is mentioned as a mercadier in the prologue to the final version of the Leys d'amor of Joan de Castellnou...
. The dilemma before the poets was this: if a knight loves a lady who does not return his affection while another dame, of equal merit, loves him, but to her he is indifferent, whom should he serve? Bernat defended the claim of the second lady, while Jacme of the first. The judges found in favour of Jacme.
Jacme also wrote a seventy-two line piece beginning Qui vol al mon de fis pretz fama granda.