Poggio Bracciolini

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Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini

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Birthplace: Terranuova Bracciolini, Province of Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy
Death: October 30, 1459 (79)
Florence, Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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Son of Guccio Bracciolini and Jacoba Bracciolini
Husband of Selvaggia Buondelmonti
Partner of Lucia Pannelli
Father of Pietro Paolo Bracciolini; Giovanni Battista Bracciolini; Jacopo di Poggio Bracciolini; Giovanni Francesco Bracciolini; Filippo Bracciolini and 1 other
Brother of Lisabetta Bracciolini and Caterina Bracciolini

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About Poggio Bracciolini

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poggio_Bracciolini

Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (11 February 1380 – 30 October 1459), best known simply as Poggio Bracciolini, was an Italian scholar and an early humanist. He was responsible for rediscovering and recovering a great number of classical Latin manuscripts, mostly decaying and forgotten in German, Swiss, and French monastic libraries. His most celebrated find was De rerum natura, the only surviving work by Lucretius.

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Poggio Bracciolini's Timeline

1380
February 11, 1380
Terranuova Bracciolini, Province of Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy
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November 13, 1442
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October 30, 1459
Age 79
Florence, Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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