Guillem de Cabestany

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Guillaume de Cabestang (more correctly, in Occitan, Guilhem de Cabestanh) was a Troubadour poet. According to his legendary Vida, he was the lover of Seremonda, wife of Raimon of Castel-Rossillon. On discovering this, Raimon fed Cabestanh's heart to Seremonda. When he told her what she had eaten, she threw herself from the window to her death. This legend appears later in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron and in the Cantos of Ezra Pound.