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Poggio Bracciolini

1380 - 1459

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Poggio Bracciolini is the 52nd most popular historian (up from 63rd in 2019), the 807th most popular biography from Italy (up from 923rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Italian Historian.

Poggio Bracciolini is most famous for his discovery of the Codex Amiatinus, which is the earliest surviving manuscript of the Latin Vulgate Bible.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Poggio Bracciolini ranks 52 out of 561. Before him are Socrates of Constantinople, Lucien Febvre, François Guizot, Yuval Noah Harari, Samuel von Pufendorf, and Niketas Choniates. After him are Aby Warburg, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani, Justin, Francesco Guicciardini, and Euhemerus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1380, Poggio Bracciolini ranks 5. Before him are Thomas à Kempis, Pachacuti, Bernardino of Siena, and Ferdinand I of Aragon. After him are Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Prokop the Great, Lidwina, İsa Çelebi, Itzcoatl, Anna of Cilli, and Yawar Waqaq. Among people deceased in 1459, Poggio Bracciolini ranks 2. Before him is Eric of Pomerania. After him are Fra Mauro, Gregory III of Constantinople, Ausiàs March, Antoninus of Florence, Adolph VIII, Count of Holstein, Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken, James of Portugal, and John Fastolf.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Poggio Bracciolini ranks 807 out of 5,161. Before him are Claudia Octavia (40), Athalaric (516), Gabriele Amorth (1925), Saint Eustace (10), Pompeia (-90), and Lino Ventura (1919). After him are Louise of Orléans (1812), Palmiro Togliatti (1893), Scholastica (480), Vittorio Gassman (1922), Aldo Rossi (1931), and Giambattista Basile (1566).

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Among HISTORIANS In Italy

Among historians born in Italy, Poggio Bracciolini ranks 6. Before him are Livy (-59), Diodorus Siculus (-90), Suetonius (70), Leonardo Bruni (1370), and Marcus Velleius Paterculus (-19). After him are Francesco Guicciardini (1483), Euhemerus (-330), Carlo Ginzburg (1939), Timaeus (-350), Flavio Biondo (1388), and Tyrannius Rufinus (345).

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