Guillem de l'Olivier d'Arle, also spelled Guilhem del Olivier, was a troubadour, probably active after 1260. He was from Provence, presumably the region around Arles, and he was also active in northern Italy. He was a prolific author of coblas esparsas, single-stanza poems, usually on a moral theme. The number of lines per poem vary from a low of four to a high of sixteen. Scholars Alfred Pillet and Henry Carstens, along with István Frank, counted 77 such pieces; while Oskar Schultz-Gora counted 79, and Alfred Jeanroy only 70.
A poem ascribed to a "Sir G. de Lobeuier" in one chansonnier is commonly thought to belong to Guillem de l'Olivier, and some manuscripts also mistakenly call him "Gui" or "Guiraut". The unreliable Jean de Nostredame identified him with a certain Uc de Lobevier (Hugues de Lobières).
Coblas esparsas
- Tan no puesc legir ni pessar
- Fals' amor no si pot dir
- Tota dona c'amors vensa
- Donas, per cosselh vos dic
- Donas, crezetz mon prezic
- Mans se fenhon enamorat
- So nos retrais Marcabrus
- Homs que se rent de sa molher gilos
- Pros dona enamorada
- Alcus homes sai entre nos
- Qui ama cortezia
- D'omes vey c'an a totz jorns mens
- Qui s'azauta d'enuetz faire
- Qui sap gardar fach e dich de secret
- Jocx e putanaria
- Qui vol aver ganre d'amicx
- Seneca que fon fom sabens
- Tant es lo mons costumatz
- Ben corteza conoissensa
- Qui se volgues cosselhar
- Tot hom me par be noiritz
- Catre cauzas son fort nominativas
- Ricx hom qu'enten en gran nobleza
- Escrich truep en un nostr' actor
- Ieu non tenc home per amic
- Si vols far ver' esproansa
- S'us homs sabia mal ses be
- Motas veguadas s'endeve
- Catre maneiras son de gens
- Senca dis que saup philozophia
- Entr' amicx et enemicx
- Auzit ay dir manta sazo
- Bon es saver acampar
- Riqueza grans fan far manta falhensa
- Sert es qui a mal vezi
- Bona fin fai qui ab bon albres lia
- Cobes e larcx aug cais tot jorn repenre
- Ieu ai vist home plaguat
- Si fos tan bos segles com sol
- Escrig (o) truep en Salomo
- D'omes truep que donan cosselh
- Tres enemicx principals
- Aisi com per aventura
- Mal temps fai reconoysser dieu
- Ieu coseguiey temps e sazo
- Mals tratz don(a) alegransa
- Tal home am que sos aibs nom azaula
- Homs ben parlans deu mais entendre
- De razon es e de natura
- Aitan ben tanh per dever
- Trop parlars fay desmentir
- Hom que per pauc de profiech
- Totz homs deu esser curos
- Ieu me tenc a gran plazer
- Trop voluntatz tol la vista
- Pieitz fa un petit de mal
- Us homs es c'a ajustat
- Si per chantan esjauzir
- Bona fes e mala
- Alcun son trop de fama
- Gauch e solatz e cortezia
- Dieus donet comandamen
- Totz hom se deu donar suenh
- Per respiech d'alcun befach
- Bos noirimens dona regla
- Sieu auzes dire a ma guiza
- Sens e sabers e conoissenza
- Hon mais m'esfors cascun jorn d'aver vida
- Fals semblans e mot deslials
- Tart o tost son doas cauzas per natura
- En totz afars tanh cortezia
- Hom deu lauzar son amic
- Hoc e no son dui contrari
- Tot enaisi com peira preziosa
- Qui en anel d'aur fai veir' encastonar
Editions
- Schultz-Gora, Oskar, ed. "Die 'coblas triadas' des Guilhem de l'Olivier d'Arle". Provenzalische Studien, I. Schriften der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft in Straßburg, 37. Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1919 : 24–82.
External links
- Complete works at trobar.org