Ugolino di Vieri (poet)

Ugolino di Vieri (1438 – 10 May 1516), also known as Verino, was an Italian notary and poet in the Republic of Florence, best remembered for his Latin dactylic hexameter.

Born in Florence to a noble family of magistrates, he was trained under Cristoforo Landino, and served as a court poet to Lorenzo de' Medici.

Between 1469 and 1480, he composed an epic on Charlemagne entitled De gestis Magni Caroli, better known as Carlias.

After a religious conversion, he dedicated his Carmen de christiana religione ac vitae monasticae felicitate (1491) to Savonarola and rejected secular poetry.

[6] Ugolino's son, Michele di Vieri [it], known for his letters, predeceased his father at the age of eighteen.

Ugolino in the historiated initial at the start of his Carlias in manuscript 838 of the Biblioteca Riccardiana , a presentation copy from the workshop of Gherardo and Monte del Flora [ it ] . [ 1 ]