Cantigas - Princeton University Press

A Bilingual Volume That Reveals An Intriguing World Of Courtly Love And Satire In Medieval Portugal And Spainthe Rich Tradition Of Troubadour Poetry In Western Iberia Had All But Vanished From History Until The Discovery Of Several Ancient Cancioneiros, Or Songbooks, In The Nineteenth Century. These Compendiums Revealed Close To 1,700 Songs, Or Cantigas, Composed By Around 150 Troubadours From Galicia, Portugal, And Castile In The Thirteenth And Early Fourteenth Centuries. In Cantigas, Award-winning Translator Richard Zenith Presents A Delightful Selection Of 124 Of These Poems In English Versions That Preserve The Musical Quality Of The Originals, Which Are Featured On Facing Pages.