Peire d' Alvernhe
Born: 1130, Clermont Ferrand, France
Died: 1168
Nationality: French
Peire d'Alvernhe or d'Alvernha was an Auvergnat troubadour (active 1149–1170) with twenty-one or twenty-four surviving works. He composed in an "esoteric" and "formally complex" style known as the trobar clus. He stands out as the earliest troubadour mentioned by name in Dante's Divine Comedy and De vulgari eloquentia.
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