Baldo da Passignano (Latin: Baldus de Pasignano, Hungarian: Bald; c. 1244 – c. 22 June 1332) was an Italian noble and poet from the Republic of Florence.

Italian historian Guido Zaccagnini considered that Baldo settled down in Padua thereafter, together with other Ghibellines, for instance, Marco da Saliceto.

[3] Baldo had a brother Pagno and a sister Aldimaringa, who married Gerardo Cipriani, also an exiled Ghibelline man from Florence.

[4] His only surviving love poem ("Donzella il core sospira"), which he wrote in his youth, is an example of the Old Occitan troubadour lyric poetry in Tuscany.

[6] It is plausible that both Baldo and his nephew Guetto Cipriani became confidants of Andrew in the 1280s, who stayed in Venice and was a pretender to the Hungarian throne against Ladislaus IV.

By that time, the aforementioned Marco da Saliceto served as tutor of the young prince as a member of the household of Albertino Morosini, Andrew's maternal uncle.

Dániel Bácsatyai considered that the epithet reflected to Baldo's position as ispán of the royal chamber and the tax thirtieth, the collection of which was probably also his portfolio.

", respectively, depicting on a helmeted shield with heraldic leaning to the right, two objects crossing each other (possibly arrowheads), with a rose between their upper stems.

[14] Veronika Rudolf incorrectly considered that this transaction occurred when Wenceslaus II invaded Hungary in May 1304, claiming that Baldo handed over the fort without resistance.

[1][14] The exiled poet Francesco da Barberino met Baldo in Padua, describing him "most noble and morose count".

Francesco wrote that Baldo compiled his work "on many novelties, by the tenor of which there was great hope for the nations laziness is removed, and honesty is commanded by his curosity".

Since Francesco compared his own work with Baldo's to avoid the accusation of plagiarism, literary historian Zsuzsa Kovács attempted to reconstruct the content of the Liber spei, which was a work of moral content, but it is not clear whether it was a book of Italian poetry, or a Latin treatise, or possibly a combination of both like that of Francesco da Barberino, who wrote of that hope that allures lovers, not of that, in a more general moral sense, which takes away laziness and induces probity treated by Baldo.

[16] According to Pietro Corcadi, a historian from Bolsena, Baldo also wrote a historical chronicle on the life and reign of Andrew III, but this work has not survived either.