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 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Italian humanist
copyist
human
manuscript hunter
municipality
scholar of Latin literature
surname
birthName Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini
citizenship Republic of Florence
countryOfBirth Italy
countryOfDeath Italy
countryOfOrigin Italy
dateOfBirth 1380
dateOfDeath 1459
discoveredWork De rerum natura
Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria
linked to: Institutio oratoria

works of Cicero
linked to: writings of Cicero

works of Lucretius
linked to: De rerum natura

works of Statius
linked to: Statius

works of Vitruvius
employer Roman Curia
familyName Bracciolini
genre Latin prose
givenName Poggio
hasNotableBearer Poggio Bracciolini
hasToponymicUse Terranuova Bracciolini
knownFor promoting the study of classical Latin
rediscovery of classical Latin texts
searching monastic libraries for ancient manuscripts
languageOfOrigin Italian
movement Italian Renaissance
Renaissance humanism
namedAfter Poggio Bracciolini
notableWork De avaritia
De infelicitate principum
De varietate fortunae
Facetiae
occupation chancellor
humanist
scribe
secretary
placeOfBirth Terranuova Bracciolini
placeOfDeath Florence
positionHeld Apostolic secretary
Chancellor of the Florentine Republic

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Poggio Bracciolini familyName Bracciolini
Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini familyName Bracciolini
subject linked to: Gian Francesco
Poggio Bracciolini familyName Bracciolini
subject linked to: Bracciolini