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Two Renaissance book hunters : the letters of Poggius Bracciolini to Nicolaus de Niccolis ; translated from the Latin and annotated / by Phyllis Walter Goodhart Gordan.
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Bracciolini
,
Poggio
,
1380
-
1459
.
Published 1991
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Poggio Bracciolini
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Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini
(; 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
'', and
Silius Italicus
's ''
Punica
'', as well as works by several minor authors such as
Frontinus
' ''
De aquaeductu
'',
Ammianus Marcellinus
' ''Res Gestae'' (''Rerum gestarum Libri XXXI''),
Nonius Marcellus
,
Probus
,
Flavius Caper
, and
Eutyches
.
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