Charles was also a poet, which distinguished him from his Capetian relatives. He composed lovesongs and a (the latter with Pierre d'Angicourt). He was requested to judge two poetic competitions in his youth, but modern scholars do not esteem his poetry. The Provençal troubadours were mostly critical when writing of Charles, but French poets were willing to praise him. Bertran d'Alamanon wrote a poem against the salt tax and Raimon de Tors de Marseilha rebuked Charles for invading the Regno. The trouvère Adam de la Halle dedicated an unfinished epic poem, entitled "The King of Sicily", to Charles and Jean de Meun glorified his victories in the "The Romance of the Rose". Dante described Charles"who bears a manly nose"singing peacefully together with his one-time rival, Peter III of Aragon, in Purgatory.