{"id":2363,"date":"2021-12-27T18:42:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T17:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/summofonte.org\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2021-12-27T18:54:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T17:54:32","slug":"francesco-da-barberino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/summofonte.org\/en\/francesco-da-barberino\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesco da Barberino"},"content":{"rendered":"

Francesco da Barberino<\/h1>\n
\"\"
Francesco da Barberino via sapere.it<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Francesco, son of Neri di Ranuccio, was born in Barberino val d’Elsa in 1264 under the pontificate of Pope Urban IV.
\nOriginally from Semifonte, the family took refuge in Barberino after the Florentines conquered and destroyed the hated castle in 1202. In “life of Messer Francesco Barberino”, by Federico Ubaldini (1610-1657) we read the meaning of the name of this town:<\/p>\n

“… this place, before its narrow walls, was called Barberino from being well bearded, and fortified to face the Sanesi, similar to two others with a conforming name, similarly built in the borders of the Florentine Republic itself”.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to Ubaldini himself, Neri’s family was forced to reside in Barberino for some time after the surrender of Semifonte, as, having been close to the Emperor, they were among those listed in the agreement between Semifonte and Fiorenza which was prevented from access to the victorious city, but even when the ban lapsed, Neri himself gave up on going there given the continuous struggles that divided the city, preferring the quiet of the Valdelsano town.<\/p>\n

Life of Francesco da Barberino<\/b><\/h2>\n

Francesco was born here, but his father certainly arranged for him to grow up in Florence so that he could study and improve his education and training as best he could. In the last decade of the 13th century, Francesco moved to Bologna where he became a notary. In 1296, upon the death of his father, he returned to Barberino but shortly after he moved to Florence where, from 1297 to 1303, he was an episcopal notary<\/strong>, signing the deeds always with the place of origin, omitting the name of the Ghibelline father.<\/p>\n

Around 1303 he married and had five children.<\/p>\n

Francesco and the stilnovisti<\/b><\/h3>\n

In Florence, he approached the group of stilnovisti and in particular Dante Alighieri and Guido Cavalcanti<\/strong>, also mingling with the painters Cimabue and Giotto. His first literary production, now lost, dates back to this period, the rhymes for a Costanza, the Flores novellarum, as well as starting work on his main works<\/p>\n