Folco Portinari (died 31 December 1289) was an Italian banker and several times the prior of Florence.[1] He was the father of Beatrice Portinari, the woman largely identified as the character loved by Dante Alighieri and mentioned in his works.[2]
Portinari was born at Portico di Romagna, near Forlì. He donated a large part of his assets to found the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence in 1288.[3][4] His residence in Florence was the future Palazzo Portinari-Salviati. He was buried in the nearby church of Santa Margherita de' Cerchi.
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- ^ del Lungo, Isidoro (1891). Beatrice nella Vita e nella Poesia del Secolo XIII (in Italian). Milan: Fratelli Treves.
- ^ Gozzoli, Antonella; Frost, Catherine (2008). "Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova (Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova)". Institute and Museum of the History of Science.
- ^ Camugliano, Ginevra Niccolini di (October 1925). "A Medieval Florentine, His Family and His Possessions". The American Historical Review. 31 (1): 5 – via JSTOR.