Poggio Bracciolini

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Poggio Bracciolini


Born
in Terranuova
January 10, 1380

Died
September 24, 1459

Genre

Influences
classical antiquity


Giovanni Francesco Poggio Bracciolini

"Pogius, rabula adeo indoctus ut etiam si vacaret obscoenitate, tamen indignus esset qui legeretur, adeo autem obscoenus ut etiam si doctissimus fuisset, tam esset a bonis viris reiiciendus." Erasmus, Opus Epistolarum, ed. Allen, Oxford 1906, I, p. 409 (letter to Christopher Fisher, 1505).
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Libro de chistes

3.89 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1452 — 97 editions
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The Facetiae Or Jocose Tale...

3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1906 — 32 editions
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The Facetiae or Jocose Tale...

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Lettere. Vol. I: Lettere a ...

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Het Pauselijke Leugenpaleis

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del Piacere di Vivere

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Revival: The Facetiae of Po...

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¿Convé que un home vell es ...

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On Leaders and Tyrants

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La vera nobiltà

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“Let us spend our leisure with our books, which will take our minds off these troubles, and will teach us to despise what many people desire.”
Poggio Bracciolini via Stephen Greenblatt

“I am determined not to assume the sacerdotal office, for I have seen many men whom I have regarded as persons of good character and liberal dispositions, degenerate into avarice, sloth, and dissipation, in consequence of their introduction into the priesthood”
Poggio Bracciolini

“…luckless Poggio vegetated in Constance, far from his friends and patrons, without any prospect of a brighter future.”
- "The Life of Poggio," pg. x in The Facetiae or Jocose Tales of Poggio: Now Translated into English with the Latin Text Volume 1”
Poggio Bracciolini, The Facetiae Or Jocose Tales of Poggio, Volume 2