# Guillem de l'Olivier

Guillem de l'Olivier d'Arle, also spelled Guilhem del Olivier, was a troubadour, probably active after 1260. He was from Provence, presumably the region around Arles, and he was also active in northern Italy. He was a prolific author of coblas esparsas, single-stanza poems, usually on a moral theme. The number of lines per poem vary from a low of four to a high of sixteen. Scholars Alfred Pillet and Henry Carstens, along with István Frank, counted 77 such pieces; while Oskar Schultz-Gora counted 79, and Alfred Jeanroy only 70.
A poem ascribed to a "Sir [En] G. de Lobeuier" in one chansonnier is commonly thought to belong to Guillem de l'Olivier, and some manuscripts also mistakenly call him "Gui" or "Guiraut". The unreliable Jean de Nostredame identified him with a certain Uc de Lobevier (Hugues de Lobières).

## Coblas esparsas

* Tan no puesc legir ni pessar
* Fals' amor no si pot dir
* Tota dona c'amors vensa
* Donas, per cosselh vos dic
* Donas, crezetz mon prezic
* Mans se fenhon enamorat
* So nos retrais Marcabrus
* Homs que se rent de sa molher gilos
* Pros dona enamorada
* Alcus homes sai entre nos
* Qui ama cortezia
* D'omes vey c'an a totz jorns mens
* Qui s'azauta d'enuetz faire
* Qui sap gardar fach e dich de secret
* Jocx e putanaria
* Qui vol aver ganre d'amicx
* Seneca que fon fom sabens
* Tant es lo mons costumatz
* Ben corteza conoissensa
* Qui se volgues cosselhar
* Tot hom me par be noiritz
* Catre cauzas son fort nominativas
* Ricx hom qu'enten en gran nobleza
* Escrich truep en un nostr' actor
* Ieu non tenc home per amic
* Si vols far ver' esproansa
* S'us homs sabia mal ses be
* Motas veguadas s'endeve
* Catre maneiras son de gens
* Senca dis que saup philozophia
* Entr' amicx et enemicx
* Auzit ay dir manta[s] sazo[s]
* Bon es saver acampar
* Riqueza grans fan far manta falhensa
* Sert es qui a mal vezi
* Bona fin fai qui ab bon albres lia
* Cobes e larcx aug cais tot jorn repenre
* Ieu ai vist home plaguat
* Si fos tan bos segles com sol
* Escrig (o) truep en Salomo
* D'omes truep que donan cosselh
* Tres enemicx principals
* Aisi com per aventura
* Mal temps fai reconoysser dieu
* Ieu coseguiey temps e sazo
* Mals tratz don(a) alegransa
* Tal home am que sos aibs nom azaula
* Homs ben parlans deu mais entendre
* De razon es e de natura
* Aitan ben tanh per dever
* Trop parlars fay desmentir
* Hom que per pauc de profiech
* Totz homs deu esser curos
* Ieu me tenc a gran plazer
* Trop voluntatz tol la vista
* Pieitz fa un petit de mal
* Us homs es c'a ajustat
* Si per chantan esjauzir
* Bona fes e mala
* Alcun son trop de fama
* Gauch e solatz e cortezia
* Dieus donet comandamen
* Totz hom se deu donar suenh
* Per respiech d'alcun befach
* Bos noirimens dona regla
* Sieu auzes dire a ma guiza
* Sens e sabers e conoissenza
* Hon mais m'esfors cascun jorn d'aver vida
* Fals semblans e mot deslials
* Tart o tost son doas cauzas per natura
* En totz afars tanh cortezia
* Hom deu lauzar son amic
* Hoc e no son dui contrari
* Tot enaisi com peira preziosa
* Qui en anel d'aur fai veir' encastonar

## Editions

* Schultz-Gora, Oskar, ed. "Die 'coblas triadas' des Guilhem de l'Olivier d'Arle". Provenzalische Studien, I. Schriften der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft in Straßburg, 37. Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1919 : 24–82.