Folgóre da San Gimignano

Folgore da San Gimignano (* 1270, † 1332 ) Official documents from the medieval San Gimignano was a poet Tuscan language around the turn of the century, according to 1300 he was actually called Jacobo and was the son of a certain Michele. . From his art or nickname is not even the emphasis (and thus the meaning) finally resolved; calls twice the poet himself Folgore in his sonnets: one determines the meter pronunciation Folgore ( = shine ), once Folgore ( = Flash ) near. Under this however stressed names a total of 35 sonnets about to be delivered, including three of dubious attribution; the most famous of these are the 14 months sonnets ( Sonetti de ' mesi ).

Its officially occupied life data are sparse: in 1295 he was remunerated for military services of the Republic of Siena, 1305-1306 from the free city of San Gimignano, which lost its political, cultural and linguistic independence in Florence until 1353; accordingly seems the Tuscan of Folgore also rather from Siena's dialect as influenced by the Florentine.