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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
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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.
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