Word: troubadour
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...society had adapted itself to the conditions of feudalism. This had refinement, amorous mind, and poetical instinct, who became the first troubadour. It is to these troubadours, that all morals and all art of the present day owe a great debt...
Dante was the end of the first and beginning of the second period. The trouvere and the troubadour are responsible for the Vita Nouva and Divine Comedy. Love, the motive idea of the middle ages is the theme of all his work. On the other hand the spirit of the Renaissance enriched his mind and gave him a power of originality which distinguished his poems from those Italian songs imitated from Provencal models. Dante with the learning of the ancient world tells for the middle ages that Love is the great mover of the universe...