Raimon d'Avinhon


Raimon d'Avinhon was a Provençal troubadour from Avignon. He wrote one surviving sirventes, "Sirvens sui avutz et arlotz", preserved in a manuscript of 1254. The sirventes is a long and humorous list of occupations he claims to have had, including bos meges, quant es locs: "a good physician, when it's time". It has been speculated that he was the Raimon d'Avinhon who translated the Practica Chirurgiae of Ruggero [da Salerno] into Occitan verse c. 1200 and that he was a physician. If it is correct that Raimon was a physician, then his poem appears to be in a category with the de l'Herberie of Rutebeuf.