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    Bartolomeo Sacchi (Italian: [ˌbartɔlɔˈmɛɔ ˈsakki]; 1421 – 21 September 1481), known as il Platina (Italian: [il ˈplatina]) after his birthplace of Piadena...
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    coffer ceiling. Platina is pointing to an inscription, written by himself, which boasts Sixtus' deeds. "Sixtus IV appoints Bartolomeo Platina Prefect of the...
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    voluptate) was the first cookbook ever printed. Written c. 1465 by Bartolomeo Platina, it first appeared between 1470 and 1475 in Rome, and in 1475 in Venice...
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    Library and author of the lives of Popes Bartolomeo Platina, he died in the 63rd year of his life, see Bartolomeo Platina: The lives of the Popes. London: 1888...
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  • illustrator and engraver Bartolomeo Platina (1421–1481), Italian teacher, scholar, author, and member of the College of Abbreviators Bartolomeo Prignano (1318–1389)...
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  • settlers Platina, California, an unincorporated community in the United States Piadena ("Platina" in Latin), an Italian village Bartolomeo Platina, a 15th-century...
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    well-documented use comes from the Italian Renaissance writer and gastronomist, Bartolomeo Platina, in the 15th century. Later references to truffle pigs include John...
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    and believed. Joan was used as an exemplum in Dominican preaching. Bartolomeo Platina, the scholar who was prefect of the Vatican Library, wrote his Vitæ...
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    conditions, especially illnesses relating to digestion and the blood. Bartolomeo Platina recommended taking beetroot with garlic to nullify the effects of...
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    in Bartolomeo Platina's De Honesta Voluptate (c. 1474), the earliest printed cookbook. In an Italian manuscript that "closely parallels" Platina's cookbook...
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    years has been described as an agnostic. In 1470 the humanist scholar Bartolomeo Platina wrote that Pope Callixtus III had asked for prayers for deliverance...
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    be said for the city's protection. In 1470, the humanist scholar Bartolomeo Platina wrote in his Lives of the Popes that, A hairy and fiery star having...
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    rarely used during the Middle Ages. Truffle hunting is mentioned by Bartolomeo Platina, the papal historian, in 1481, when he recorded that the sows of Notza...
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    book by Bartolomeo Platina printed in Venice entitled De honesta voluptate et valetudine (English: On Honest Pleasure and Good Health). Platina puts Martino's...
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    Piccolomini was born on 9 May, not 29 May: "Ipse natus erat vij idus Maij." Bartolomeo Platina; Onuphrio Panvinio (1568). Historia B. Platinae de vitis pontificum...
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    early 1900s that the shorter maturation Asiago Pressato was produced. Bartolomeo Platina wrote "goat's milk is excellent, ewe's milk is next, with cow's milk...
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  • Maestro Martino Bartolomeo Platina Lancelot de Casteau, author of L'Ouverture de cuisine (1604) Guillaume Fouquet de la Varenne Bartolomeo Scappi, author...
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    by Bartolomeo Platina, published around 1475, contains the same recipe under the title torta ex castaneís. A similar recipe appears in Bartolomeo Scappi's...
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  • 1454, from a manuscript in the Biblioteca Estense. cols. 437–474. Bartolomeo Platina: The life of Neri di Gino Capponi (Vita clarissimi viri Nerii Capponii)...
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    his predecessor. This was criticised by the 15th-century historian Bartolomeo Platina, who wrote that "these popelings studied nothing else but to extinguish...
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    such positions. Paul proceeded as well against the Roman Academy. Bartolomeo Platina was a member of both and found his papal employment abruptly curtailed...
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    ædificatoria by Leone Battista Alberti (1404–1472) 1471. Contra amores by Bartolomeo Platina (1421–1481) 1479. De inventione dialectica by Rodolphus Agricola (1444–1485)...
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    variously counted as 3,500 in 1475 or 2,527 in 1481, when librarians Bartolomeo Platina and Pietro Demetrio Guazzelli produced a signed listing. At the time...
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    2003), p. 208. He is described as "natione Alemannus ex Bavaria" by Bartolomeo Platina (1540). Historia de Vitis Pontificum (in Latin). Cologne: F.C. Agrippinas...
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    Essays and Dialogues, Bartolomeo Scala, ed. and trans. Renee Neu Watkins, 2008 Lives of the Popes, Volume 1: Antiquity, Bartolomeo Platina, ed. and trans. Anthony...
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  • (Croatian/Hungarian) Bartolomeo Facio (1410–1457) (Italian/Neapolitan) Isotta Nogarola (1418-1466) (Italian) Wessel Gansfort (1419-1489) (Frisian) Bartolomeo Platina (1421–1481)...
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    Italian) in which production traditionally began. In 1475 the writer Bartolomeo Platina said that the Etruscan marzolino was as good as Parmesan cheese: "In...
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    following the Pazzi conspiracy. In 1479, the plague broke out in Rome; Bartolomeo Platina, the head of the Vatican Library was killed, and Pope Sixtus IV fled...
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    indulgence and good health) written by the Italian writer and gastronomist Bartolomeo Platina. Abruzzo Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Trebbiano d'Abruzzo Apulia Malvasia...
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    Church. Retrieved 29 January 2016. Montor, p. 190. John Stein (1913). "Bartolomeo Platina". In Charles George Herbermann (ed.). The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol...
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