Burchiello, Domenico (c. 1404–1449)

Italian poet. His poems, mostly sonnets of the burlesque type and often licentious, had great contemporary popularity.

Opposed to the Medici, he was forced into exile when they returned to Florence in 1434. His poems, which reflect a vernacular tradition, include an attack on Cosimo de' Medici (‘O humil popul/O humble people’); though he was no Medicean and no humanist, the collectors of his works included Lorenzo de' Medici ‘the Magnificent’.