GIAN FRANCESCO POGGIO BRACCIOLINI
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An eminent Italian humanist; born at Castel Terranuova, near Florence, Feb. 11, 1380; died at Florence, Oct. 30, 1459. By his untiring research of the monastery libraries of Switzerland and Germany, he brought to light MSS. supposed to have been lost, of works of the ancient classics, as Quintilian, Valerius Flaccus, Ascanius, Statius, Ammianus, and many others. He translated into Latin several of the Greek classics. His own writings are: "Facetiae", a work of the same questionable character as others of the same title- the book had 26 editions at the end of the 15th century; "Of the Variances of Fortune"; a "History of Florence"; "The Miseries of Human Life"; "The Infelicity of Princes"; "On Marriage in Old Age"; "Dialogue Against Hypocrites".
By Charles Dudley Warner
