Uc's portrait in a manuscript of vidas, some of which he wrote
Uc de Saint Circ (San Sir) or Hugues (Hugh) de Saint Circq (fl. 1217–1253[1]) was a troubadour from Quercy. Uc is perhaps most significant to modern historians as the probable author of several vidas and razos of other troubadours, though only one of Bernart de Ventadorn exists under his name.[1][2] Forty-four of his songs, including fifteen cansos and only three canso melodies, have survived, along with a didactic manual entitled Ensenhamen d'onor.[1][3] According to William E. Burgwinkle, as "poet, biographer, literary historian, and mythographer, Uc must be accorded his rightful place as the 'inventor' (trobador) of 'troubadour poetry' and the idealogical trappings with which it came to be associated."[4]
Uc is probably to be identified with the Uc Faidit (meaning "exiled" or "dispossessed") who authored the Donatz proensals, one of the earliest Occitan grammars. This identity fits with Uc's status as the "inventor" of troubadour poetry as a distinct type and his life in Italy (possibly due to exile during the Albigensian Crusade).
UcdeSaintCirc (San Sir) or Hugues (Hugh) deSaint Circq (fl. 1217–1253) was a troubadour from Quercy. Uc is perhaps most significant to modern historians...
attributed to Peire de Bussignac, Berenguier de Palazol, Elias de Barjols, Guillem de la Tor, Pons de Capdoill and UcdeSaintCirc; yet few of these other...
details in the poems. Most of the surviving razo corpus is the work of UcdeSaintCirc, composed in Italy between 1227 and 1230. In one case, a manuscript...
produced three surviving tensos with Joan d'Albusson, Falquet de Romans, and UcdeSaintCirc. Nicoletto is probably the same person as the "Nicolet" who...
Aimeric de Peguilhan. A great many were clerics, or at least studied for the Church, for instance, Arnaut de Mareuil, UcdeSaintCirc, Aimeric de Belenoi...
originally a jongleur. His poems were typical for the time, according to UcdeSaintCirc, the probable author of his vida, being about natural objects (like...
also wrote a defence of Cunizza da Romano in the form of a tenso with UcdeSaintCirc (Qi na Cuniça guerreia, "Who fights for Lady Cunizza"), a coblas esparsa...
"graceful, witty, and polished" medium. According to the troubadour UcdeSaintCirc, Bernart was possibly the son of a baker at the castle of Ventadour...
chansonniers do not clearly mark the beginning and end of stanzas. UcdeSaintCirc composed a song, Messonget, un sirventes, that acknowledges that it...
(Marchettus of Padua), Jacques of Liège, Johannes de Grocheo, Petrus de Cruce (Pierre de la Croix), and Philippe de Vitry. Chant (or plainsong) is a monophonic...
(April), p. 317, and in Id. (1990), "L'Autr'escrit of UcdeSaintCirc: The Razos for Bertran de Born", Romance Philology, 44:2 (November), p. 130. The...
exchange of couplets between lo coms de Rodes (the count of Rhodes) and UcdeSaintCirc. The count claims to have got Uc back on his feet through his generous...
Muntaner), the son d'En Gui (Peire Bremon Ricas Novas), or the son de meser Gui (UcdeSaintCirc). It has been suggested that these references (or at least some...
Occitan poet himself. He is known to have had contact with Sordello and UcdeSaintCirc. Folios 153r to 211r of the chansonnier known as MS D, now α, R.4.4...
Troubadour Obs de Biguli entertains at the coronation of the Emperor Frederick II UcdeSaintCirc moves first into Provence, then Lombardy, and finally...
troubadour UcdeSaintCirc, 13th century, born in Thégra but his father was the poor lord of Saint-Cyr, near La Pannonie. Antoine Vidal de Lapize Lord...
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-21389-4. Riquer, Martí de (1964). Història de la Literatura Catalana, vol. 1. Barcelona: Edicions Ariel....
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