Folgóre da San Gimignano
Folgore da San Gimignano, pseudonym of Giacomo di Michele or Jacopo di Michele (c. 1270 – c. 1332), was an Italian poet.
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Folgóre da San Gimignano
- Full name
- Jacopo di Michele.
- Born
- 1270. · San Gimignano.
- Died
- 1332. · San Gimignano.
- Occupation
- poet and writer.
- Languages
- Italian.
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Folgore da San Gimignano, pseudonym of Giacomo di Michele or Jacopo di Michele (c. 1270 – c. 1332), was an Italian poet.
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Folgóre da San Gimignano was recorded at birth as Jacopo di Michele. The authorities additionally record the heading Folgore da San Gimignano. His recorded language was Italian.
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1270
Folgóre da San Gimignano born at San Gimignano.
1332
Folgóre da San Gimignano died at San Gimignano.
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He represented mostly hunting scenes, jousts of the citadine bourgeoisie of Tuscany. 32 sonnets are attributed to him, written around 1308–1316. The most famous ones are the corone dedicated to the days of the week and the months. The language is Tuscan, the poetic form a derivation of the Provençal then ruling in Italian poetry. Others had an anti-Ghibelline satirical tone. His corone were later satirized by Cenne della Chitarra. Little more is known about his life: he is cited in a document in 1295 and other sources date his death to 1332.
• Two of his sonnets, April and May, were set to music in Primavera che non vi rincresca, a composition written in 1971 by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero. • Both Folgore and Cenne are mentioned in Francesco Guccini's "Canzone dei dodici mesi" ("Song of the Twelve Months"), from the album Radici (1972).
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