A salut d'amor or (e)pistola ("epistle") was an Occitan lyric poem of the troubadours, written as a letter from one lover to another in the tradition of courtly love. Some songs preserved in the Italian chansonniers are labelled in the rubrics as saluts, but the salut is not treated as a genre by medieval Occitan grammarians. The trouveres copied the Occitan song style into Old French as the salut d'amour. There are a total of nineteen surviving Occitan saluts and twelve French ones, with Catalan examples also.
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Place of OriginOccitania, among the troubadours 1 Notable ExampleDomna, cel qe'us es bos amics by Raimbaut d'Aurenga 1 Defining TraitVerse letter from one lover to another, usually in octosyllabic rhyming couplets 1 FAQs
Did medieval writers treat the salut d'amor as a genre?
Some manuscripts label songs as saluts, but medieval Occitan grammarians did not treat it as a genre.
Not the Occitan grammarians. Some songs preserved in the Italian chansonniers are labelled in their rubrics as saluts or an equivalent term, but the salut is not treated as a genre by medieval Occitan grammarians.
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Introduction
was an Occitan lyric poem of the troubadours, written as a letter from one lover to another in the tradition of courtly love.
History and examples
The first salut d'amor was probably Domna, cel qe'us es bos amics, written by Raimbaut d'Aurenga
Structure
Structurally they are usually octosyllabic rhyming couplets, but a few are hexasyllabic.
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