Rostanh (or Rostaing) de Merguas (or Mergas) was a minor late thirteenth-century
Provençal
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troubadour from the
Vaucluse. He may be the troubadour described in the table of contents of
chansonnier
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''C'', a fourteenth-century
Occitan manuscript, as an ''escudier de la Ylha'' (
squire of
l'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue). He is ascribed one ''
canso
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''. He was at one point assigned the song ''Non sai cal conseilh mi prenda'', but this is the work of
Cadenet. Rostanh is called de Melies in the
rubric of chansonnier ''H''.
References
*
Jeanroy, Alfred (1934). ''La poésie lyrique des troubadours''. Toulouse: Privat.
''Longa sazon ai estat vas Amor''at Rialto, possibly by Rostanh
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13th-century French troubadours
People from Vaucluse