Nuno Porco

Medieval minstrel

Bibliographic notes

Nothing of concrete is known about this author, who may have been a galician minstrel, given the placement, in the italian aphographs, and in an area of minstrels, of his only preserved song. Anyway, as Resende de Oliveira1 points out, his surname, widely used in the medieval western Peninsula, is equally documented in noble families.

Bibliographic references

1 Oliveira, António Resende de (1994), Depois do espectáculo trovadoresco. A estrutura dos cancioneiros peninsulares e as recolhas dos séculos XIII e XIV Lisboa, Edições Colibri