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Folgore da San Geminiano

Folgore da San Geminiano (fôl'gōrā dä sän jāmēnyä'nō) [key], fl. 130816, Italian poet. Mesi, his cycle of sonnets on the seasons and their appropriate pleasures, is interspersed with zestful descriptions of the manners of his day.

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