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 [En] 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

  1. Tan no puesc legir ni pessar
  2. Fals' amor no si pot dir
  3. Tota dona c'amors vensa
  4. Donas, per cosselh vos dic
  5. Donas, crezetz mon prezic
  6. Mans se fenhon enamorat
  7. So nos retrais Marcabrus
  8. Homs que se rent de sa molher gilos
  9. Pros dona enamorada
  10. Alcus homes sai entre nos
  11. Qui ama cortezia
  12. D'omes vey c'an a totz jorns mens
  13. Qui s'azauta d'enuetz faire
  14. Qui sap gardar fach e dich de secret
  15. Jocx e putanaria
  16. Qui vol aver ganre d'amicx
  17. Seneca que fon fom sabens
  18. Tant es lo mons costumatz
  19. Ben corteza conoissensa
  20. Qui se volgues cosselhar
  21. Tot hom me par be noiritz
  22. Catre cauzas son fort nominativas
  23. Ricx hom qu'enten en gran nobleza
  24. Escrich truep en un nostr' actor
  25. Ieu non tenc home per amic
  26. Si vols far ver' esproansa
  27. S'us homs sabia mal ses be
  28. Motas veguadas s'endeve
  29. Catre maneiras son de gens
  30. Senca dis que saup philozophia
  31. Entr' amicx et enemicx
  32. Auzit ay dir manta[s] sazo[s]
  33. Bon es saver acampar
  34. Riqueza grans fan far manta falhensa
  35. Sert es qui a mal vezi
  36. Bona fin fai qui ab bon albres lia
  37. Cobes e larcx aug cais tot jorn repenre
  38. Ieu ai vist home plaguat
  39. Si fos tan bos segles com sol
  40. Escrig (o) truep en Salomo
  41. D'omes truep que donan cosselh
  42. Tres enemicx principals
  43. Aisi com per aventura
  44. Mal temps fai reconoysser dieu
  45. Ieu coseguiey temps e sazo
  46. Mals tratz don(a) alegransa
  47. Tal home am que sos aibs nom azaula
  48. Homs ben parlans deu mais entendre
  49. De razon es e de natura
  50. Aitan ben tanh per dever
  51. Trop parlars fay desmentir
  52. Hom que per pauc de profiech
  53. Totz homs deu esser curos
  54. Ieu me tenc a gran plazer
  55. Trop voluntatz tol la vista
  56. Pieitz fa un petit de mal
  57. Us homs es c'a ajustat
  58. Si per chantan esjauzir
  59. Bona fes e mala
  60. Alcun son trop de fama
  61. Gauch e solatz e cortezia
  62. Dieus donet comandamen
  63. Totz hom se deu donar suenh
  64. Per respiech d'alcun befach
  65. Bos noirimens dona regla
  66. Sieu auzes dire a ma guiza
  67. Sens e sabers e conoissenza
  68. Hon mais m'esfors cascun jorn d'aver vida
  69. Fals semblans e mot deslials
  70. Tart o tost son doas cauzas per natura
  71. En totz afars tanh cortezia
  72. Hom deu lauzar son amic
  73. Hoc e no son dui contrari
  74. Tot enaisi com peira preziosa
  75. 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.
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