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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)

Person · Open Library

Works: 24

Top works

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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Origin: Italy

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1
Total plays: 2

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“We are terrified of future catastrophes and are thrown into a continuous state of misery and anxiety, and for fear of becoming miserable, we never cease to be so, always panting for riches and never giving our souls or our bodies a moment’s peace. But those who are content with little live day by day and treat any day like a feast day.”
“I do not think of the priesthood as liberty, as many do, but as the most severe and oppressive form of service.”
“Every man waits his destined hour; even the cities are doomed to their fate. Let us spend our leisure with our books, which will take our minds off these troubles, and will teach us to despise what many people desire.”
“At the Roman Court good Fortune generally prevails, and there is but seldom room for talent or honesty; every thing is obtained through intrigue or luck, not to mention money, which seems to hold supreme sway all over the world.”
“I think I should not omit to mention the place where most of the above tales were related, I might almost say, acted. That place is our Bugiale, a sort of laboratory for fibs.”

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Key facts

Born: Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini , 11 February 1380, Terranuova , Republic of Florence
Died: 30 October 1459 (1459-10-30) (aged 79), Florence , Republic of Florence
Occupation: Papal Secretary
Children: 5 sons and a daughter

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Poggio Bracciolini, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Birth and education

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Poggio Bracciolini” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.