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"Salut d'amour" redirects here. For other uses, see Salut d'Amour (disambiguation).

A salut d'amor^[a] (Occitan:[saˈlyddaˈmuɾ], Catalan:[səˈluddəˈmoɾ,saˈluddaˈmoɾ]; "love letter", lit.

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"greeting of love") or (e)pistola ("epistle") was an Occitanlyric poem of the troubadours, written as a letter from one lover to another in the tradition of courtly love. Some songs preserved in the Italian Quattrocento and Cinquecentochansonniers are labelled in the rubrics as saluts (or some equivalent), but the salut is not treated as a genre by medieval Occitan grammarians.

The trouvères copied the Occitan song style into Old French as the salut d'amour. There are a total of nineteen surviving Occitan saluts and twelve French ones,^[b] with a Catalan examples (of the salutació amorosa) also.

The poetic form probably derives from the classical Latin love letter and through a blending of the ars dictaminis and the earl