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Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini , 1380-1459, Italian humanist. A secretary in the Roman curia, he later became chancellor and historiographer of the republic of Florence. A prodigious copyist, he rediscovered many lost classical works, including Lucretius' De rerum natura and Quintilian's Institutio oratorica. His Facetiae (1474), a collection of earthy fables and anticlerical satires, was printed in England by William Caxton in 1484.
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Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini , 1380-1459, Italian humanist. A secretary in the Roman curia, he later became chancellor and historiographer of the republic... |
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Germany, Idea of
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...nation." "Germany" as an idea was created by the humanists around 1500. The key event in its genesis was Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini's (1380 – 1459) discovery at Hersfeld Abbey of a unique manuscript of Tacitus' Germania... |
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Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...economic activities. Hence, they lauded the enterprise of merchants and manufacturers, to the extent that Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (1380 – 1459) contended that industriousness and self-acquired possessions constituted the... |
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