Leopoldo Sanguinetti

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Leopoldo Sanguinetti was a Gibraltarian poet and writer. He wrote in English and was the author of the sonnet sequence the Calpean Sonnets (1957). In the 2004 Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (edited by Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly) Sanguinetti's Calpean Sonnets was described as one of "the only two English-language volumes of Gibraltarian poetry of significance." [1] Sanguinetti also wrote lyrics for the Gibraltarian composer Pepe Noguera.

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References

  1. Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (2005), edited by Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly, p. 580.