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The poem is nothing but a jeu d'esprit based upon the contrast between troubadour sentiments and the honest but unpoetical views of the middle class; it is interesting to philologists as containing one of the earliest known specimens of Italian dialect. An example of the Tuscan dialect is also found in the descort by Raimbaut.
The descort of Raimbaut de Vaqueiras is written in five dialects, one for each stanza, and the last and sixth stanza of the poem gives two lines to each dialect, which Babel of strange sounds is intended, he says, to show how entirely his lady's heart has changed towards him. The ballata and the estampida were dance-songs, but very few examples survive.
None the less, such visits must have taken place: Sancho I. had French jongleurs in his pay during the twelfth century and the Portuguese element in the five-language descort of Raimbaut de Vaqueiras shows that communication between Provençal poets and Portuguese or Galician districts must have existed.
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