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Peider Lansel

Romansh poet
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Peider Lansel (born Aug. 15, 1863, Pisa—died Dec. 9, 1943, Geneva) was a Romansh leader of the revival of Rhaeto-Romance language and culture and one of its most accomplished lyric poets. Spending every summer at his family’s native village of Sent in the Engadine, Lansel devoted himself to the collection and critical examination of Rhaeto-Romance texts of the previous four centuries, work that was crowned by publication of the lyric anthology La musa ladina (1910,...

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