Folgóre 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 bourgesy of Tuscany. 32 sonnets are attributed to him, written around 1308-1316. The sonnet is one of the poetic forms that can be found in Lyric poetry from Europe. The most famous ones are the corone dedicated to the days of the week and the months. The language was a derivation of the Provençal the ruling in the Italian poetry. Provençal ( Provençau) is one of several dialects of Occitan spoken by a minority of people mostly in Provence (in southern France Other had an anti-Ghibelline satirical tone. The Guelphs and Ghibellines were factions supporting respectively the Papacy and the Holy Roman Empire in central and northern Italy
His corone were later satirized by Cenne della Chitarra.
Little more is known about his life: he is cited in a document in 1295 and other sources date his death to 1332
Popular culture
Both Folgóre and Cenne are mentioned in Francesco Guccini's "Canzone dei dodici mesi" ("Song of the Twelve Months"), from the album Radici (1972). Francesco Guccini (born June 14, 1940) is an Italian Singer-songwriter and author Radici is an album of Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini.
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