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Edition: Simon Gaunt, Ruth Harvey and Linda Paterson 2000; notes: Linda Paterson. – Rialto 24.i.2003.
C (174v), E (154).
Previous editions: Jean-Marie-Lucien Dejeanne, Poésies complètes du troubadour Marcabru, Toulouse, 1909, p. 121 (XXV); M. de Riquer, Los Trovadores, 3 vols., Barcelona, 1975, I, p. 211; Simon Gaunt, Ruth Harvey and Linda Paterson, Marcabru: A Critical Edition, Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 2000, p. 343.
Versification: a7’ a7’ a7’ b7’ c3 c3 c3 c3 c3 c3 b5’ (Frank 84). Seven stanzas with ‘a’ and ‘b’ constant, ‘c’ singulars, and one tornada of 7 lines.
This and poem 293.26 may most convincingly be assigned to the period 1130-34. In about 1130, Alfonso I the Batallador, having failed to overcome the resistence of Lerida, attempted to isolate it, ordering two successive sieges of nearby Fraga where he met his death in September 1134. Marcabru was in France at this time, probably at the court of Poitou, and from his geographical standpoint Fraga is precisely ‘part Lerida’ (BdT 293.26, 293.23).