Summary
Folgore De San Gimignano: Sonnets
Sonetti / Soneti Folgore da San Gimignano
I am finally happy that this book of verses, the only collection of poets from the early Trecento, in a certain way an elitist reading, has seen a Croatian edition, in every respect worthy of praise, which continues the tradition of our interweaving with literary Europe.
Mirko Tomasović, Vjesnik
Bilingual edition about thirty masterfully formed sonnets in expert overtones, in which the life of a soldier-knight is mostly idealized. The multi-layered poetic expression, the wealth of associations, liveliness and humor, and the harmonious interweaving of aristocratic and plebeian ingredients, especially in the most famous sonnets, motivated by calendar themes, make this songbook of thematically related sonnets a true literary and reading treasure.
Folgore, real name Giacomo di Michele, a soldier and warrior born in the Tuscan city of San Gimignano, sang these superb sonnets at the beginning of the 14th century. century.
The translation of Željka Čorak was awarded the annual award of the Society of Croatian Translators for 2000.
Biblioteka Parnas. Niz Književnost, editor Jelena Hekman. - Text compared in Italian and Croatian, editor's afterword
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