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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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    champion Niccolò Da Conti, Venetian merchant and explorer Niccolò Matas, Italian architect Niccolò de' Niccoli, Italian Renaissance humanist Niccolò Piccinino...
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    (itself based on Carolingian minuscule), was introduced in the 1420s by Niccolò Niccoli; it was the manuscript origin of the typefaces we recognize as italic...
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    depend on a single manuscript, now missing, that managed to be copied. Niccolò Niccoli, a collector of manuscripts from antiquity, had this archetype in Florence...
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    2020, pp. 9–10:Other notable humanists were Poggio Bracciolini and Niccolò Niccoli Monfasani 2020:"The two most fundamental aspects of the victory of...
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    had arguably been laid before the Black Death tore through Europe. Niccolò Niccoli was the leading Florence humanist scholar of the time. He appointed...
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    notice of the chief scholars of Florence; both Coluccio Salutati and Niccolò de' Niccoli befriended him. He studied notarial law, and, at the age of twenty-one...
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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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    author of that, as well as of the one on the Odyssey that our friend Niccolò Niccoli got from me. Aurispa already owned the "two volumes" in 1421; this...
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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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    May 1416 to treat rheumatism in his hands. In a letter to his friend Niccolò Niccoli in Florence, he described Baden as a locus amoenus, an idealized place...
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    volumes, purchasing the extensive book collection of the humanist Niccolò Niccoli 1441, which abounded in classical, Greek and Latin texts. The library...
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    contained 1209 codices. Significant private libraries belonged to Niccolò Niccoli (808 volumes) and Coluccio Salutati (circa 800 volumes). Among the...
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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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  • fall of Constantinople, taking them to Florence, to the humanist Niccolò de' Niccoli. In 1516 Bernardo Giunta used it for the first printed edition of...
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  • selected by Giovanni di Bicci. Roberto's friends Leonardo Bruni and Niccolo Niccoli were inherited by Cosimo and formed part of his circle. He is one of...
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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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    da Bisticci to transcribe manuscripts and paid off the debts of Niccolò de' Niccoli after his death in exchange for control over his collection of some...
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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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    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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  • Fasc. 1: Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Coluccio Salutati, Niccolò Niccoli, Poggio Bracciolini, Bartolomeo Aragazzi of Montepulciano, Sozomeno...
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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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  • Traversari, Giacomo Bracelli [it; es; fr], Poggio Bracciolini and Niccolò Niccoli. Traversari's translation of the works of Aeneas of Gaza is dedicated...
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    Greek texts, including a work by Thucydides which he later sold to Niccolo Niccoli in 1417. He returned to Italy in 1414, setting in Savona, where he...
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  • public library at San Marco, Florence, based on the collection of Niccolò de' Niccoli. 1448 – Pope Nicholas V founds the Vatican Library in Rome. 1450...
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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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  • 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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  • others were Giovanni Aurispa, Leonardo Bruni and Niccolò Niccoli. In Bologna he associated with Niccolò Albergati. There he encountered Aurispa again, and...
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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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