Re: PPB: June / Folgore de San Geminiano

> Will-Dockery wrote:
> 
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>> On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:47:29 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>> 
>>> Sunday's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>> June, by Folgore de San Geminiano
>>> 
>>> And lemons, citrons, dates, and oranges,
>>> And all the fruits whose savour is most rare,
>>> Shall shine within the shadow of your trees;
>>> And every one shall be a lover there
>>> {...]
>>> 
>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2025/06/june-folgore-de-san-geminiano.html
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> Another great find of another great obscure poet, obscure to me, at
>>> least.
>>> 
>>> 🙂
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Folgore is definitely obscure. He was an Italian poet from Dante's time,
>> a knight by profession who of course never published anything, and of
>> whom only 32 sonnets are known today. IIRC I learned of him while
>> working on the bio of the other Dante, Rossetti, who translated his
>> sonnets of the month into English and published them in the 19th
>> century.
>> 
>> I'm hoping to do a bit about that obscurity by making him this year's
>> calendar poet on PPB. I'd already used two of his sonnets - "January" in
>> 2018 and "February" in 2020 - so this year I started adding his poetry
>> in March.
>> 
>> One thing I'm doing that's been fun so far is to look for an appropriate
>> medieval illustration for each sonnet.
> 
> 
> Amazing, this thread has continued for over a year, now.
> 
> 😏



Even more amazing, the PPB link is still attached, and still works. That's wonderful. 


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