biography
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Politian or Poliziano
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originally Angelo Ambrogini
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pronunciation:
[polishan, politsiah
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| male
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| lived:
| (1454–94)
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| biography:
| Humanist, scholar, and poet, born in Montepulciano, C Italy. By 17 he had begun the translation of the Iliad into Latin hexameters, and through the friendship of Lorenzo de' Medici (whose sons he taught) he was soon recognized as the leading Italian scholar. Appointed canon of Florence in 1480, he became professor of Greek and Latin at Florence (1482–6). Among his works are Latin translations of a long series of Greek authors, an edition of the Pandects of Justinian, and Orfeo (1480), the first secular drama in Italian. |
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