Poggio di Guccio (the surname Bracciolini added during his career) was born near Arezzo, in Tuscany, in the village of Terranuova, which in 1862 was renamed Terranuova Bracciolini in his honor.
Taken by his father … See more

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Poggio, like Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (who became Pius II), was a great traveller, and wherever he went he brought … See more

• Albert Curtis Clark, "The Literary Discoveries of Poggio", Classical Review 13 (Cambridge, 1899) pp. 119–30.
• Dr. William Shepherd, Life of Poggio Bracciolini ( See more

In October 1403, on high recommendations from Salutati and Leonardo Bruni ("Leonardo Aretino"), he entered the service … See more

After July 1415—Antipope John XXIII had been deposed by the Council of Constance and the Roman Pope Gregory XII had abdicated—the papal office remained vacant … See more

Poggio cultivated and maintained throughout his life close friendships with some of the most important learned men of the age: See more

• Poggii Florentini oratoris et philosophi Opera : collatione emendatorum exemplarium recognita, quorum elenchum versa haec pagina enumerabit, Heinrich Petri ed., (apud … See more