CINO DA PISTOJA, ehe'no dal pes-Wya originally G CITTON el NO SIN I BALDI ) 1270 1336). An Italian jurist and poet, horn at Pis toja. He began the study of law there, and then went to Bologna. where his masters were Lam berto di Ilamponi and Franciscus Ac•ursins. On his return, he held a civil position in his native city. Being a partisan of the Ghibelline faction, lie became involved in the Guelph and Ghibelline disputes; and as the Guelph faction became tri umphant, he had to leave l'istoja, and in the course of his travels visited Rome and journeyed in France. When the death of the Emperor Henry VII. left the Ghibelline cause in an ap parently hopeless state, he withdrew from party strife, and made law his special study. Ile received the degree of doctor at Bologna (1314), and afterwards taught jurisprudence at Treviso, Siena, Florence, Perugia, and Naples. He is the author of two books on law, often reprinted, Lectura in Codierin dustiniani (1483) and Lee turn in Digrstum 1"ei IIS ( 1527). Among his
pupils) were the celebrated Bartolus and doannes Andrea. ('inn is best remembered now for his friendship with Dante. who speaks of him with enthusiasm in He l'ulgari •loquio. Like Dante, be had an ideal lady. to whom lie addressed his sonnets—a certain Selvaggia di Vergiolesi ; and there is, therefore, significance in his verses coin forting Dante on the loss of Beatrice. Tetrarch called him `Nostro Amoroso 7.11esser Cino,' By Cardneci be is ranked midway between Caval eanti and Dante. His works were printed in Rome in 1559. The last edition of his poems is that by Bindi and Fanfani. Le rime ridotte a tnialior lezione (Pistoja. 1878). Consult : Chiap pen', i'ita e opere giuridiche di Cino da l'istoja (Turin, ISS1) ; and Rossetti, Dante and his Cir cle (London, 1874).