The Archpoet, or "Archipoeta", is a name given to the bibulous and boastful anonymous author of many of the poems contained in the Carmina Burana collection of mediæval Latin verse. ... Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... The name Carmina Burana refers both to a collection of 13th-century songs and poetry, and a 20th-century musical setting of texts from it. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...

His existence has been surmised from consistencies in usage and style among certain of the otherwise anonymous poems in that collection. He was decidedly a follower of the Goliardic tradition, writing student drinking songs and satires on the life of itinerant clergy in the Middle Ages. Very little else can be said with certainty about his life. He does refer to Rainald of Dassel as Archbishop of Cologne, which shows that he must have been alive and active between 1159, when Rainald became archbishop, and 1167, when he died. He refers to himself as ortus a militibus, of knightly birth. In another of the poems attributed to him, he refers to Salerno, suggesting that he travelled between Germany and Italy. Little more can be said about his life. The Goliards were a group of clergy who wrote bibulous, satirical Latin poetry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. ... Clergy is the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion. ... Rainald von Dassel (born around 1120; died August 14, 1167 near Rome) was archbishop of Cologne from 1159 to 1167 and archchancellor of Italy. ... In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop heading a diocese of particular importance due to either its size, history, or both, called an archdiocese. ... Cologne skyline at night. ... Events Heiji Rebellion in Tunis is conquered by the Almohad caliphs. ... Events Taira no Kiyomori becomes the first samurai to be appointed Daijo Daijin, chief minister of the government of Japan Peter of Blois becomes the tutor of William II of Sicily Absalon, archbishop of Denmark, leads the first Danish synod at Lund Absalon fortifies Copenhagen William Marshal, the greatest knight... Map of Italy showing Salerrno southeast of Naples Salerno is a town and a province in Campania, Italy. ...

His best known poem is a long confessional piece on his love of drink, gambling, and women. It contains the lines:

Meum est propositum in taberna mori,

Ut sint vina proxima morientis ori.

Tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:

"Sit deus propitius huic potatori."

(I mean to die in a tavern, so that wine will be close by my dying mouth. Then the choirs of angels will sing more happily, "May God have mercy on this drinker.")

Another section of this long poem supplies the text to the aria Estuans interius ira vehementi (Burning with inner rage) that was set to music by Carl Orff in his Carmina Burana cantata. Carl Orff Carl Orff (July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982) was a German composer born in Munich. ... Cantata (Italian for a song or story set to music), a vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement. ...

The Archpoet is a character in the novel Baudolino by Umberto Eco. Photo of Umberto Eco by Robert Birnbaum Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian novelist and philosopher, best known for his novels and essays. ...