Poggio Bracciolini

Riccardo Fubini (Università di Firenze)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

Born 11 Feb 1380
Died 30 Oct 1459
Activity 1404-1459

Places

Born in Italy
Active in Italy

Activities

Primary

Humanist
Prose writer

Resources

Bracciolini's Works

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Poggio Bracciolini is one of the outstanding Latin writers of fifteenth-century humanism. We could define him as the most direct follower of the moral thought of Petrarch in his own century. His writings, mostly of an epistolary or dialogical character, were composed late in his life.

Poggio was born in Terranova, midway between Florence and Arezzo, but as early as 1402 he was inscribed in the Florentine guild of judges and notaries. He spent the greatest and the most meaningful part of his life, however, at the papal court in Rome. In 1405 he was named to the curial office of the Abbreviatori (drafters of papal correspondence), and in 1411 he succeeded his friend Leonardo Bruni as papal secretary, the most honourable among papal services. He subsequently accompanied Pope John XXIII to the

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Citation: Fubini, Riccardo. "Poggio Bracciolini". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 April 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13109, accessed 24 November 2024.]