A razo was a short piece of Occitan prose detailing the circumstances of a troubadour composition. A razo normally introduced an individual poem, acting as a prose preface and explanation; it might, however, share some of the characteristics of a vida and the boundary between the two genres was never sharp.
Facts
Place of OriginItaly, 1227-1230, mostly by Uc de Saint Circ 1 Defining TraitProse preface and explanation introducing an individual poem 1 Sources
1. Razo - Wikipedia
Corpus
Most of the surviving razo corpus is the work of Uc de Saint Circ, composed in Italy between 1227 and 1230.
Introduction
A razo normally introduced an individual poem, acting as a prose preface and explanation
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