ABSTRACT
Cino da Pistoia (ca. 1265–1336) studied civil law at the schools of Dino del Mugello, Francesco d’Accursio, Lambertino dei Ramponi, and Martino Sillimani. After the death of Henry VII (1313), Cino retired from political commitment and completed his most important and famous work, Lectura in Codicem. Then he assumed the role of judge in Siena and later was councilor of the municipality of Pistoia for civil cases and pontifical officer in Macerata and in Camerino. As professor, he taught in Siena, Florence, Perugia, and Naples. Cino was the most productive poet of his time and has left an important mark in the poetry of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and in general in the poetry of all time. As De Sanctis said, Cino, like Dante and Guido Cavalcanti, was both a poet and a scholar. For all three, the training in the Bologna university schools played a very important role. All three used the scientific method of employing rhetoric to link and associate distant concepts through successive approximations.
