Maldit-comiat

A related genre, the comiat (Occitan: [kuˈmjat], Catalan: [kumiˈat, komiˈat]; "dismissal"), was a song renouncing a lover.

The maldit and the comiat were often connected as a maldit-comiat (or comiat-maldit) and they could be used to attack and renounce a figure other than a lady or a lover, like a commanding officer (when combined, in a way, with the sirventes).

Martí de Riquer describes un autèntic maldit-comiat as a song where a poet leaves a mistress to whom he has long been fruitlessly devoted, and explains her failings which have led him to depart.

On the basis of this, March has been argued to be creating a new form, politically motivated and less encumbered by the ethics of courtly love.

Bernart de Palaol wrote a comiat that has often been misidentified as a maldit or comiat-maldit, when in fact it contains no invective.