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    Niccolò de' Niccoli (1364 – 22 January 1437) was an Italian Renaissance humanist. He was born and died in Florence, Italy, and was one of the chief figures...
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    such as Niccolò de' Niccoli and Leonardo Bruni. He also established a Platonic Academy in Florence in 1445. He provided his grandson Lorenzo de' Medici...
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  • monastery (Hersfeld Abbey). It was eventually secured by the humanist Niccolò de' Niccoli. In modern times, two manuscripts of the Agricola are preserved in...
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    champion Niccolò Da Conti, Venetian merchant and explorer Niccolò Matas, Italian architect Niccolò de' Niccoli, Italian Renaissance humanist Niccolò Piccinino...
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    educators Niccolò de' Niccoli and Coluccio Salutati. The neat, sloping, humanist cursive invented by the Florentine humanist Niccolò de' Niccoli in the 1420s...
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    influential Florentine friends: Coluccio Salutati (1331–1406), Niccolò de' Niccoli (1364–1437), Lorenzo de' Medici the elder (1395–1440), Leonardo Bruni (Chancellor...
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  • 1444: 15 June – Cosimo de' Medici founds a public library at San Marco, Florence, based on the collection of Niccolò de' Niccoli. 1448 – Pope Nicholas...
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    amassing a collection of 800 books, slightly less than his contemporary Niccolò de' Niccoli. He also pursued classical manuscripts, making a number of important...
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  • it. In 1423, Giovanni Aurispa brought the codex to the humanist Niccolò de' Niccoli in Florence. Bernardo Giunti later used it for the first printed...
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    capitals, modeled on Roman square capitals. The Italian scholar Niccolò de' Niccoli was dissatisfied with the lowercase forms of Humanist minuscule,...
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    Renaissance scholars such as Petrarch, Coluccio Salutati (1331–1406), Niccolò de' Niccoli (1364–1437), and Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459) scoured the libraries...
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    future Chancellor of Florence. Another member of the circle was Niccolò de' Niccoli, a humanist and an associate of Cosimo Medici. Santo Spirito was...
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    Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (b. 1401) January 22 – Niccolò de' Niccoli, Italian Renaissance humanist (b. 1364) February 21 – King James...
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    replicated handwriting of the period following from the style of Niccolò de' Niccoli, possibly even Manutius' own. The first use in a complete volume...
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    copy (the "Codex Laurentianus 35.30") of it by Poggio's friend, Niccolò de' Niccoli, did, and today it is kept at the Laurentian Library in Florence...
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    in Greece and brought it to the attention of antiquarians such as Niccolò de' Niccoli and Poggio Bracciolini. Poggio recognised that there were hieroglyphic...
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    and educators Niccolò de' Niccoli and Coluccio Salutati. The neat, sloping, humanist cursive invented by the Florentine humanist de' Niccoli in the 1420s...
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    Marsuppini, Poggio Bracciolini, Leonardo Bruni, Francesco Filelfo, Niccolò de' Niccoli, Palla Strozzi, and Lorenzo Valla. Apologeticus, as A Translator's...
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    embraced and developed by the Florentine humanists and educators Niccolò de' Niccoli and Coluccio Salutati. The papal chancery adopted the new fashion...
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  • 1355–1415) (Greek) George Gemistos Plethon (c.1355–1452/1454) (Greek) Niccolò de' Niccoli (1364–1437) (Italian) Leonardo Bruni (c.1369–1444) (Italian) Guarino...
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  • events, births and deaths in AD 1364 in Italy: Battle of Cascina Niccolò de' Niccoli Lodrisio Visconti "Michelangelo Buonarroti vs Leonardo da Vinci"...
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    they included Guarino da Verona, Coluccio Salutati, Roberto Rossi, Niccolò de' Niccoli, Carlo Marsuppini, Pier Paolo Vergerio, Uberto Decembrio, Palla Strozzi...
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    One of the abbots was theologian Ambrose Traversari who assisted Niccolò de' Niccoli in acquiring the manuscripts that would later make up the library...
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  • translating, and annotating the letters of Poggio Bracciolini to Niccolò de' Niccoli resulted in the 1974 publication of Two Renaissance Book Hunters...
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    Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (b. 1401) January 22 – Niccolò de' Niccoli, Italian Renaissance humanist (b. 1364) February 21 – King James...
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    during Cosimo's de facto rule of Florence, the seeds of which had arguably been laid before the Black Death tore through Europe. Niccolò Niccoli was the leading...
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    Italian scholar Guarino da Verona and received further education from Niccolò Niccoli, an influential Florentine humanist. By 1414 he had become a priest...
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  • value of the finds and sent his agent Niccolò Niccoli to Hersfeld to obtain a detailed inventory. In 1431, Niccoli identified three writings of Tacitus...
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    pupil), Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia, Coluccio Salutati, Roberto Rossi, Niccolò Niccoli, Leonardo Bruni, Carlo Marsuppini, Pier Paolo Vergerio, Uberto Decembrio...
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  • tutor of Cosimo de' Medici, a role for which he was selected by Giovanni di Bicci. Roberto's friends Leonardo Bruni and Niccolo Niccoli were inherited...
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