Terino da Castelfiorentino (born 1230s/1240s) was a
Florentine poet from
Castelfiorentino in the
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. The only biographical document concerning Terino was in the past dated to either 1268 or 1270, but a date of April 1281 has since been settled on. This notice was first publicised by Santorre Debenedetti. It shows that Terino was a cloth seller in Florence at the time. He is recorded as ''Terino f. Nevaldi di castè fiorentini''. His father Nevaldo matriculated in the
Arte della Seta in 1225. His son Truccio entered the
Arte dei Giudici e Notaj in 1302. A document of 1 June 1362 refers to a Terio and a Giovanni of Castelfiorentino, probably younger sons of Terino.
He had a ''
tenzone'' with Monte Andrea di Firenze and another with Onesto da Bologna. He penned a response, ''Naturalmente chere ogni amadore'', to the first
sonnet in the ''
Vita nuova'' of
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: '' ...
, but this has sometimes been assigned instead to
Cino da Pistoia.
References
*Aruch, A. (1915). "Per Terino da Castelflorentino". ''Giornale storico della letteratura italiana'', 66 (196/197), pp. 279–280.
Italian poets
Italian male poets
Sonneteers
Year of death unknown
Year of birth unknown
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