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The wrongness of Boris Johnson
New Statesman 04 Oct 2024
... Empire”, in 1764 not “back in 1776”, while sitting in the ruins of the Capitol, not the Forum, and quoted the elegiac words of the 15th-century, not 16th-century, Italian scholar Poggio Bracciolini.
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The Colosseum’s secret: How ancient Roman concrete shaped our world
Interesting Engineering 08 Sep 2024
From 400 B.C ... The Colosseum in Rome exemplifies Roman construction prowess ... In 1414, Italian scholar Poggio Bracciolini discovered a manuscript in Switzerland’s Saint Gall Abbey that would eventually reveal the secrets of Roman concrete ... .
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Why Renaissance Thinkers Saw Italy as the “New Ancient Greece”
Greek Reporter 02 Sep 2024
Credit. Thanos Matanis / Greek Reporter ... Fractured politics ... Humanism ... Credit ... Humanists such as Leonardo Bruni, Petrarch, and Poggio Bracciolini actively searched for lost classical texts, competing to find, translate, and publish these works ... Credit ... ....
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The Greek Architects of Italy’s Renaissance
Greek Reporter 05 May 2024
An AI depiction of a trio of Greek scholars from the Renaissance. Credit ... His teaching career was extremely successful, teaching several future scholars, including Poggio Bracciolini, Leonardo Bruni, Guarino da Verona, Carlo Marsuppini, and many more.
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The Greatest Byzantine Greek Scholars of the Renaissance
Greek Reporter 01 Apr 2024
Credit ... Manuel Chrysoloras (c ... Chrysoloras counted many prominent names among his pupils, including Poggio Bracciolini, Leonardo Bruni, Guarino da Verona, Carlo Marsuppini, Niccolò Niccoli, Palla Strozzi, and Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder ... Credit ... 1452).
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Tacitus: The Master Chronicler of Ancient Rome
Ancient Origins 24 Mar 2024
Thucydides Versus Herodotus ... W ... () Tacitus ... Renaissance humanists, such as Poggio Bracciolini and Niccolò Machiavelli, admired Tacitus for his penetrating analysis of politics and power, finding in his works a mirror to their own tumultuous age ... C ... 4 ... 6) ... .
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The Constantine Hoax and the Forgery of Western History, by Laurent Guyénot
The Unz Review 08 Feb 2024
It has been argued, for example, that the works of Tacitus, discovered in the 15th century by Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), “betray the pen of a 15th century humanist” (Polydor Hochart).Polydor ...
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Victor Nuovo: The Greek Atomists
Addison County Independent 08 Jun 2023
His philosophical poem “De Rerum Natura” (On the Nature of Things) also would have been lost if Italian scholar Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459 CE) searching for manuscripts of classical works ...
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An entertaining history of humanist thought
Economist 19 Apr 2023
Humanly Possible. By Sarah Bakewell. Penguin Press; 464 pages; $30 ... Petrarch will be familiar; less so Leontius Pilatus, a shaggy-bearded Calabrian, or Poggio Bracciolini, who wrote what Ms Bakewell describes as the first published joke book ... ■ .
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To be a hedonist
The Manila Times 10 Nov 2022
Part 2. IN this continuation of my Oct ... The Romans were notorious for their lavish parties and other excesses ... Poggio Bracciolini published De Rerum Natura and is said to have been convinced by Lucretius's words; he reconsidered later in life ... ....
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