Poggio Bracciolini
Also known as Poggio di Duccio, Giovanni Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Poggius Florentinus, Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Poggius Guccii, Poggio di Guccio, Poggio de Terranova
Italian scholar, writer and humanist (1380–1459)
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- The Facetiae of Poggio and Other Medieval Story-Tellers
- Poggii Florentini Facetiarum
- Jérome de Prague Au Concile Se Constance, Ou Lettre de Poggio Bracciolini Á Son Ami Leonardo D'arezzo
- Facezie Di Poggio Fiorentino
- Facéties de Pogge
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36 objects attributed to Poggio Bracciolini, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini ( Italian: [dʒaɱ franˈtʃesko ˈpɔddʒo brattʃoˈliːni]; 11 February 1380 – 30 October 1459), usually referred to simply as Poggio Bracciolini, was an Italian scholar and an early Renaissance humanist. He is noted for rediscovering and recovering many classical Latin manuscripts, mostly decaying and forgotten in German, Swiss, and French monastic libraries. His most celebrated finds are De rerum natura, the only surviving work by Lucretius, De architectura by Vitruvius, lost orations by Cicero such as Pro Sexto Roscio, Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria, Statius' Silvae, Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae (Rerum gestarum Libri XXXI), and Silius Italicus's Punica, as well as works by several minor authors such as Frontinus' De aquaeductu, Nonius Marcellus, Probus, Flavius Caper, and Eutyches.
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