Peirol
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Peirol or Peiròl[1] (French: [peʁɔl], Occitan: [pejˈɾɔl]; born c. 1160,[2] fl. 1188–1222[3]/1225,[4] died in the 1220s) was an Auvergnat troubadour who wrote mostly cansos of courtly love in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries.[5] Thirty-four surviving poems written in Occitan have been attributed to him;[6] of these, seventeen (sixteen of them love songs) have surviving melodies.[5] He is sometimes called Peirol d'Auvergne or Peiròl d'Auvèrnha,[7] and erroneously Pierol.[8]