Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini
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1380 – 1459
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Who was Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini?
Poggio Bracciolini served under seven popes, as a Florentine/Roman scholar, writer and an early humanist. He recovered a great number of classical Latin manuscripts, mostly decaying and forgotten in German, Swiss, and French monastic libraries, including the only surviving Lucretius, and disseminated manuscript copies among his learned friends.
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- Born
- Feb 11, 1380
Arezzo - Also known as
- Giovanni Francesco Poggio Bracciolini
- Nationality
- Italy
- Died
- Oct 30, 1459
Florence
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on July 23, 2013
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