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Poggio di Guccio (the surname Bracciolini added during his career) [3] 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 to Florence to pursue the studies for which he appeared so apt, he studied Latin under the amanuensis Giovanni Malpaghino [ 4 ...
GOL: The standard reference to Latin placenames, with their modern equivalents, is Dr. J. G. Th. Grässe, Orbis Latinus: Lexikon lateinischer geographischer Namen des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit (1861), an exhaustive work of meticulous German scholarship that is available on-line in the second edition of 1909. To use it, one must understand ...
Poggio di Ancona, Ancona, Marche; Poggio Buco, site of the ancient Etruscan city Statonia; Poggio dei Pini, a frazione of Capoterra, Cagliari, Sardinia; Poggio di San Remo, a frazione of San Remo, Imperia, Liguria; Poggio Filippo, a frazione of Tagliacozzo, L'Aquila, Abruzzo; Poggio Primocaso, a frazione of Cascia, Perugia, Umbria; Poggio ...
The first printed joke book is Facetiae (full title: Poggii Florentini Oratoris clarissimi facetiarum liber) by Poggio Bracciolini, first published in 1470 and reprinted many times, although earlier manuscripts of this type are known, e..g., Libellus de facetiis Rudolfi regis ("A Little Book with Facetiae about King Rudolph") by a Strasbourg ...
The original meaning was similar to "the game is afoot", but its modern meaning, like that of the phrase "crossing the Rubicon", denotes passing the point of no return on a momentous decision and entering into a risky endeavor where the outcome is left to chance. alenda lux ubi orta libertas: Let light be nourished where liberty has arisen
The Facetiae is an anthology of jokes by Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459), first published in 1470. It was the first printed joke book. The collection, "the most famous jokebook of the Renaissance", [1] is notable for its inclusion of scatological jokes and tales, six of the tales involving flatulation humor and six involving defecation.
Giannino di Guccio, 14th century man who claimed to be the adult version of the deceased child king John I the Posthumous of France; Mario Guccio (1953-2018) lead vocalist of Belgian rock band Machiavel; Poggio di Guccio, 15th century Italian soldier
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