Folgore da San Gimignano , pseudonym of Giacomo di Michele or Jacopo di Michele (c. 1270 – c. 1332) was an Italian poet. He represented mostly hunting scenes, jousts of the citadine bourgeoisie of Tuscany. 32

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s 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

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then ruling in Italian poetry. Others had an anti- Ghibelline satirical tone. His ''corone'' were later satirized by

Cenne della Chitarra The ''Siri Sandhi'' also Siri Paddana (pronounced: ''Siri Paadhdhana'') or ''Epic of Siri'' is an epic poem in the Tulu language. Consisting of 15,683 lines of poetry, it is the longest poem in Tulu. The epic is essentially a biography of a leg ...

. Little more is known about his life: he is cited in a document in 1295 and other sources date his death to 1332.

Cultural references

* 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

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. * 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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{{DEFAULTSORT:San Gimignano, Folgore Da 1270 births 1332 deaths Italian poets Italian male poets