Poggio was an Italian scholar and early Renaissance humanist who was responsible for rediscovering and recovering many classical Latin manuscripts, most decaying and forgotten in German, Swiss, and French monastic libraries. His most celebrated find was De Rerum Natura ("On the Nature of Things"), an ancient poem and only surviving work by Lucretius that had been almost entirely lost to history for more than a thousand years.
Poggio was the subject of Stephen Greenblatt's Pulitzer Prize-winning book: The Swerve: How the World Become Modern, published in 2012.
He was born near Arezzo in Tuscany, in the village of Terranuova, which was renamed Terranuova Bracciolini in his honor in 1862.
In the basilica where he is buried, a statue by Donatello and a portrait by Antonio del Pollaiuolo are all that remain to commemorate his service to humanity.
Poggio was the subject of Stephen Greenblatt's Pulitzer Prize-winning book: The Swerve: How the World Become Modern, published in 2012.
He was born near Arezzo in Tuscany, in the village of Terranuova, which was renamed Terranuova Bracciolini in his honor in 1862.
In the basilica where he is buried, a statue by Donatello and a portrait by Antonio del Pollaiuolo are all that remain to commemorate his service to humanity.
Poggio was an Italian scholar and early Renaissance humanist who was responsible for rediscovering and recovering many classical Latin manuscripts, most decaying and forgotten in German, Swiss, and French monastic libraries. His most celebrated find was De Rerum Natura ("On the Nature of Things"), an ancient poem and only surviving work by Lucretius that had been almost entirely lost to history for more than a thousand years.
Poggio was the subject of Stephen Greenblatt's Pulitzer Prize-winning book: The Swerve: How the World Become Modern, published in 2012.
He was born near Arezzo in Tuscany, in the village of Terranuova, which was renamed Terranuova Bracciolini in his honor in 1862.
In the basilica where he is buried, a statue by Donatello and a portrait by Antonio del Pollaiuolo are all that remain to commemorate his service to humanity.
Poggio was the subject of Stephen Greenblatt's Pulitzer Prize-winning book: The Swerve: How the World Become Modern, published in 2012.
He was born near Arezzo in Tuscany, in the village of Terranuova, which was renamed Terranuova Bracciolini in his honor in 1862.
In the basilica where he is buried, a statue by Donatello and a portrait by Antonio del Pollaiuolo are all that remain to commemorate his service to humanity.
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