Leopoldo Sanguinetti was a Gibraltarian poet and writer. He wrote in English and was the author of the

sonnet sequence A sonnet sequence is a group of sonnets thematically unified to create a long work, although generally, unlike the stanza, each sonnet so connected can also be read as a meaningful separate unit. The sonnet sequence was a very popular genre during ...

the ''Calpean Sonnets'' (1957). In the 2004 ''Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English'' (edited by Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly) Sanguinetti's ''Calpean Sonnets'' was described as one of "the only two English-language volumes of Gibraltarian poetry of significance."Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (2005), edited by Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly, p. 580. Sanguinetti also wrote lyrics for the Gibraltarian composer Pepe Noguera.

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