Gherardello da Firenze

Gherardello da Firenze was a fourteenth-century Italian composer and a leading representative of the Florentine Ars Nova. Originally named Niccolò, he served as a cleric and chaplain at Santa Reparata in Florence. He died in the early 1360s.

His surviving music includes madrigals, ballate and the three-part caccia Tosto che l’alba. These works belong to the rich secular tradition of the Italian Trecento, in which poetic text, melodic invention and lively depictions of everyday life are closely connected.