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Poggio Bracciolini, Italian scholar and translator (born 1380)

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Poggio Bracciolini

Italian scholar, writer and humanist (1380–1459)

Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, usually referred to simply as Poggio Bracciolini, was an Italian scholar and an early Renaissance humanist. He is noted for rediscovering and recovering many classical Latin manuscripts, mostly decaying and forgotten in German, Swiss, and…
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October 30

Day of the year

October 30 is the 303rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 62 days remain until the end of the year.
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