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Leonardo Bruni

1370 - 1444

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Leonardo Bruni or Leonardo Aretino (c. 1370 – March 9, 1444) was an Italian humanist, historian and statesman, often recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. He has been called the first modern historian. He was the earliest person to write using the three-period view of history: Antiquity, Middle Ages, and Modern. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonardo Bruni has received more than 303,756 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Leonardo Bruni is the 38th most popular historian (down from 36th in 2019), the 612th most popular biography from Italy (down from 579th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Historian.

Leonardo Bruni was an Italian humanist and historian who was born in 1370 and died in 1444. He is most famous for his work on the history of Florence, which he wrote in Latin.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Leonardo Bruni ranks 38 out of 339Before him are Hippolyte Taine, Jacques Le Goff, Edward Gibbon, William of Tyre, Ibn Ishaq, and Erwin Panofsky. After him are Lucien Febvre, Samuel von Pufendorf, Aby Warburg, Ernst Gombrich, Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani, and Ali ibn al-Athir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1370, Leonardo Bruni ranks 4Before him are Pope Gregory XI, Antipope John XXIII, and Isabeau of Bavaria. After him are Olaf II of Denmark, Gentile da Fabriano, John VII Palaiologos, Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, Lorenzo Monaco, Erasmo of Narni, Švitrigaila, and William, Duke of Austria. Among people deceased in 1444, Leonardo Bruni ranks 3Before him are Władysław III of Poland and Robert Campin. After him are Bernardino of Siena, Olivera Despina, Mark of Ephesus, John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, Julian Cesarini, Joseph Albo, and Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Leonardo Bruni ranks 612 out of 4,668Before him are Libius Severus (420), Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598), Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720), Tancred, Prince of Galilee (1072), Alexander of Battenberg (1857), and Maria Luisa of Savoy (1688). After him are Constance, Queen of Sicily (1154), Publius Cornelius Scipio (-260), Giulio Andreotti (1919), Paolo Maldini (1968), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896), and Pierluigi Collina (1960).

Among HISTORIANS In Italy

Among historians born in Italy, Leonardo Bruni ranks 4Before him are Livy (-59), Suetonius (70), and Diodorus Siculus (-90). After him are Poggio Bracciolini (1380), Marcus Velleius Paterculus (-19), Euhemerus (-330), Francesco Guicciardini (1483), Carlo Ginzburg (1939), Timaeus (-350), Flavio Biondo (1388), and Tyrannius Rufinus (345).