Pèire Godolin

Pierre Godolin (* 1579 in Toulouse, † September 10, 1649 in Toulouse ) was a Provencal poet.

Pierre de Goudulin devoted himself to jurisprudence and was a lawyer, but then turned entirely to poetry to. His seals in Provencal language were influenced by his reading of classical poets.

His reputation soon spread throughout the South of France, where his work with the nobility was well received and he often was a guest.

The council of Toulouse, granted him a pension of 300 livres, of which he lived. Shortly before his death he went to the local Carmelite monastery, where he died on 10 September 1649.

His poems, consisting of ballads, punching, elegies and epigrams, distinguished less by intellectual and emotional depth than by grace and by the charm of the melodic language. As its most important Ode His works collected under the title Las obros de Pierre Goudelin applies to the death of Henry IV published: Augmentados noubelomen de Forco pessos, Ambe le Dictiounari sur la lengo Moundino.