[or Guiraut]. Called the “Master of the Troubadours,” a poet of Provence, ranked by Dante, along with Arnaut Daniel and Bertran de Born, the greatest of their compeers. Borneil has left poems of charming simplicity, and remarkable productions in the so-called “close” style. His poems had a more moral tone than those of his contemporaries, and are marked by sacred reverence for the art of poetry and chivalry, which are his themes. His chief work was done between A.D. 1175 and 1220. See Lives and Works of the Troubadours (F. Diez, Leipsic, 1829 and 1882). See also “All-Glorious King!”
