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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Poggio Bracciolini has received more than 308,287 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 37 in 2019). Poggio Bracciolini is the 63rd most popular historian (down from 48th in 2019), the 923rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 758th in 2019) and the 8th 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 63 out of 561Before him are Callisthenes, Tzvetan Todorov, John Skylitzes, Francesco Guicciardini, Libanius, and Theophylact Simocatta. After him are Al-Baladhuri, Theopompus, Heinrich Wölfflin, Gaston Maspero, Benzion Netanyahu, and Johann Jakob Bachofen.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Poggio Bracciolini ranks 923 out of 5,161Before him are Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548), Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (-300), Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646), Silas (1), Sejanus (-20), and Sebastiano Serlio (1475). After him are Epicharmus of Kos (-524), Antonio Tabucchi (1943), Quirinius (-45), Sandro Pertini (1896), Andrea Luchesi (1741), and Natalia Ginzburg (1916).

Among HISTORIANS In Italy

Among historians born in Italy, Poggio Bracciolini ranks 8Before him are Suetonius (70), Diodorus Siculus (-90), Euhemerus (-330), Leonardo Bruni (1370), Marcus Velleius Paterculus (-19), and Francesco Guicciardini (1483). After him are Carlo Ginzburg (1939), Flavio Biondo (1388), Timaeus (-350), Tyrannius Rufinus (345), Andrea Alciato (1492), and Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (1457).