Flavio Biondo, Italian historian and author (born 1392)

Flavio Biondo

Italian humanist and historian (1392–1463)

Flavio Biondo was an Italian Renaissance humanist historian. He was one of the first historians to use a three-period division of history and is known as one of the first archaeologists. Born in the capital city of Forlì, in the Romagna region, Flavio was well schooled from an…