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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 (10[1])who were the first to compete in “floral games.” A poet who developed the sirventes form in this language is seen in a later work carrying his decapitated head like a lantern in the Malebolge (“mal-ih-BOLJ”). The dedication to Ezra Pound (10[1])in The Waste Land as “il miglior fabbro” (“meel-YOR FAH-bro”) quotes Dante’s praise of a poet in this language who invented the sestina. (-5[1])For 10 points, Arnaut Daniel (“ar-NAWD don-YEL”) and other medieval troubadours performed (10[1])in what Romance language (10[1])of southern France? ■END■ (10[2])

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