Re: PPB: June / Folgore de San Geminiano

> George J. Dance wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
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>> George J. Dance wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.



Great to get this poet back in the spotlight again.

😏 


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