THE LIFE OF POGGIO BRACCIOLINI

by Rev. William Shepherd

$300 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Liverpool: Printed by J. M. M'Creery for Cadell & Davies, London, 1802. First edition. 4to. 4 , iv, 487 pp. Engraved view on title page; with the half-title. Poggio 1380-1459 , an Italian scholar and humanist, was responsible for rediscovering and recovering many classical Latin manuscripts, mostly decaying and forgotten in German, Swiss, and French monastic libraries Wikipedia , including works by Lucretius, Cicero, and Quintilian, among others.

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