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Poggio Bracciolini
Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, usually referred to simply as Poggio Bracciolini, was an Italian scholar and an early Renaissance humanist. He is noted for rediscovering and recovering many classical Latin manuscripts, mostly decaying and forgotten in German, Swiss, and French monastic libraries. His most celebrated finds are De rerum natura, the only surviving work by Lucretius, De architectur…
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politics · Italian scholar, writer and humanist (1380–1459) · historian · classical scholar · philosopher · translator · writer · humanist · politician · also Poggio Bracciolini, Poggio di Duccio, Giovanni Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Poggius Florentinus, Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini
Born 11 February 1380 · Died 30 October 1459 · Q318254
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La Nazione: Poggio Bracciolini, l’umanista che seppe districarsi nella Roma di Papi e Antipapi
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1862· 1 entry
Was renamed Terranuova Bracciolini in his honor
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1459· 1 entry
Died 1459-10-30.
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Born 1380-02-11.
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