Question

The 2018 song “Bagdad” was inspired by a work in this language about an imprisoned woman who communicates with a knight by kissing the Psalter at church. A poet in this language who claimed to “love the wind / and chase the hare with the ox” was praised in the book The Spirit of Romance. Razos accompanied colorful biographies in this language of poets who were the first to compete in “floral games.” A poet who developed the sirventes form in this language (-5[1])is seen in a later work carrying (10[1])his decapitated head like a lantern in the Malebolge (“mal-ih-BOLJ”). The dedication to Ezra Pound in The Waste (10[1])Land (-5[1])as “il miglior fabbro” (“meel-YOR FAH-bro”) quotes Dante’s praise of a poet in this language who invented the sestina. For 10 points, Arnaut Daniel (“ar-NAWD don-YEL”) and other medieval troubadours performed in what (10[1])Romance language (10[1])of southern France? (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[1])

ANSWER: Occitan (“OCK-sit-in”) [or Provençal; or Old Occitan; accept langue d’oc] (The lead-in refers to the romance Flamenca, which inspired Rosalía’s album El Mal Querer. The Spirit of Romance is by Ezra Pound.)
<HG, European Literature>
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