Bracciolini

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Bracciolini is an Italian surname most famously associated with Poggio Bracciolini, a Renaissance humanist and manuscript hunter who helped rediscover many classical Latin texts.

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Bracciolini canonical 1

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instanceOf Italian humanist
copyist
human
manuscript hunter
municipality
scholar of Latin literature
surname
birthName Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini NERFINISHED
citizenship Republic of Florence NERFINISHED
countryOfBirth Italy
countryOfDeath Italy NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Italy
dateOfBirth 1380
dateOfDeath 1459
discoveredWork De rerum natura NERFINISHED
Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria NERFINISHED
works of Cicero NERFINISHED
works of Lucretius NERFINISHED
works of Statius NERFINISHED
works of Vitruvius
employer Roman Curia NERFINISHED
familyName Bracciolini NERFINISHED
genre Latin prose
givenName Poggio NERFINISHED
hasNotableBearer Poggio Bracciolini NERFINISHED
hasToponymicUse Terranuova Bracciolini NERFINISHED
knownFor promoting the study of classical Latin
rediscovery of classical Latin texts
searching monastic libraries for ancient manuscripts
languageOfOrigin Italian
movement Italian Renaissance NERFINISHED
Renaissance humanism NERFINISHED
namedAfter Poggio Bracciolini NERFINISHED
notableWork De avaritia NERFINISHED
De infelicitate principum NERFINISHED
De varietate fortunae NERFINISHED
Facetiae NERFINISHED
occupation chancellor
humanist
scribe
secretary
placeOfBirth Terranuova Bracciolini NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Florence NERFINISHED
positionHeld Apostolic secretary
Chancellor of the Florentine Republic NERFINISHED

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Poggio Bracciolini familyName Bracciolini