Poggio Bracciolini
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1380-02-11
- Died
- 1459-10-30
- Works
- 24
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- <i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2
· 2018 · cited 7,349x
- <i>Gaia</i> Data Release 3
· 2023 · cited 3,783x
- New Creatinine- and Cystatin C–Based Equations to Estimate GFR without Race
· 2021 · cited 3,689x
- <i>Gaia</i>Early Data Release 3
· 2021 · cited 3,643x
- HMDB: A large video database for human motion recognition
· 2011 · cited 2,802x
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 11 February 1380
- Died
- 30 October 1459
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Francesco
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Papal States
- Place of birth
- Terranuova Bracciolini
- Place of death
- Florence
- Occupation
- politician
- Languages spoken
- medieval Latin
- Participant in
- Council of Constance
- Student of
- Giovanni Malpaghini
Article
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