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#56 Poggio Bracciolini Part 4
In 1417, Poggio made the greatest discovery of his career – Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, aka "On The Nature Of Things", the last surviving copy of his five-book…
#55 Poggio Bracciolini Part 3
So back to January 1417. Poggio made a number of book hunting trips that winter. So he must have had a lot of funding from back home. Here's…
#54 Poggio Bracciolini Part 2
Poggio had to use all of his talents to talk his way into monastery libraries. In some he had to be super serious. In others, he would tell…
#53 Poggio Bracciolini
In the year 1417, 17 years before Cosimo De Medici took control of Florence, a man called Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini went hunting in the middle of Germany.…