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    Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (Italian: [dʒaɱ franˈtʃesko ˈpɔddʒo brattʃoˈliːni]; 11 February 1380 – 30 October 1459), usually referred to simply as Poggio Bracciolini...
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    in the offing. The generator of the new style (illustration) was Poggio Bracciolini, a tireless pursuer of ancient manuscripts, who developed the new...
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    municipality was the birthplace in 1380 of the famed early humanist Poggio Bracciolini, for which it was renamed in 1862. "Superficie di Comuni Province...
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    in January 1417 by Poggio Bracciolini, who probably found the poem in the Benedictine library at Fulda. The manuscript that Poggio discovered did not...
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  • Bracciolini is a surname of Italian origin. Notable people with the surname include: Francesco Bracciolini (1566-1645), Italian poet Poggio Bracciolini...
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  • Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Renaissance humanist Julieta Poggio (born 2002), Argentine model, actress and dance teacher Tomaso Poggio, Italian-born...
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  • The Facetiae is an anthology of jokes by Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459), first published in 1470. It was the first printed joke book. The collection, "the...
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    Italian humanists revived interest in the work after the discovery by Poggio Bracciolini in 1416 of a forgotten, complete manuscript in the Abbey of Saint...
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    for realism and human emotion in art. Renaissance humanists such as Poggio Bracciolini sought out in Europe's monastic libraries the Latin literary, historical...
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    manuscripts, including Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Coluccio Salutati, and Poggio Bracciolini. Of the four, Petrarch was dubbed the "Father of Humanism," as he...
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    re-discovered in either 1416 or 1417 by the Italian humanist and scholar Poggio Bracciolini. The dates of the Punica's composition are not entirely clear. There...
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    monk's manuscript copies, but "rediscovered" in the 15th century by Poggio Bracciolini among works such as De Rerum natura. Many artists then attempted to...
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    was rediscovered c. 1416–1417 by the Italian humanist and scholar Poggio Bracciolini, who had a copy made from which the modern text derives. Upon its...
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    and theological disputes, the most prominent one with Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, which took place after his settlement in Rome. Extreme language was...
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    populace. One early anthology of jokes was the Facetiae by the Italian Poggio Bracciolini, first published in 1470. The popularity of this jest book can be...
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    though in 1414 it was "rediscovered" by the Florentine humanist Poggio Bracciolini in the library of Saint Gall Abbey. Leon Battista Alberti published...
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  • Gianfrancesco Penni (1488/1496–1528), Italian painter Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459), Italian scholar All pages with titles beginning with...
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    Middle Ages, but was rediscovered in 1417 in a monastery in Germany by Poggio Bracciolini and it played an important role both in the development of atomism...
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    those discovered in monastery libraries in Switzerland and France by Poggio Bracciolini and his assistant Bartolomeo di Montepulciano during the Council of...
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    that the whole of the Annals had been forged by the Italian scholar Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459). According to Robert Van Voorst this was an "extreme hypothesis"...
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  • scholar of the Renaissance, known for her research into the life of Poggio Bracciolini. Phyllis Walter Goodhart was born on October 4, 1913, to Howard Lehman...
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  • National Book Award for Nonfiction. Greenblatt tells the story of how Poggio Bracciolini, a 15th-century papal emissary and obsessive book hunter, saved the...
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    turned over to the same secular court, with the same outcome as Hus. Poggio Bracciolini attended the council and related the unfairness of the process against...
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  • humanists, including editiones principes by Festus, Nonius, Varro, Poggio Bracciolini, and others, as well as patristic writers such as John Chrysostom...
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    princeps of Diodorus was a Latin translation of the first five books by Poggio Bracciolini at Bologna in 1472. The first printing of the Greek original (at Basel...
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    Zarco Leon Battista Alberti Thomas Blundeville Giovanni Boccaccio Poggio Bracciolini Leonardo Bruni Johannes Cuspinian Erasmus Thomas More Matteo Palmieri...
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  • ancient Britain. The text survived in a single codex ascertained by Poggio Bracciolini to be in a German monastery (Hersfeld Abbey). It was eventually secured...
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    European town as well as to Syria, Egypt, and Greece organized by Poggio Bracciolini, his chief book scout." He engaged 45 copyists under the bookseller...
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  • Naples 1282 – Ibn Khallikan, Iraqi scholar and judge (b. 1211) 1459 – Poggio Bracciolini, Italian scholar and translator (b. 1380) 1466 – Johann Fust, German...
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    of Nicolo di Conti (c. A.D. 1396-1469) as recorded c. A.D. 1445 by Poggio Bracciolini. Portuguese records spelled the name as Arracao. The name was spelled...
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