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An Italian translation was made from the Portuguese. Poggio's Historia Florentina ( History of Florence ), is a history of the city from 1350 to 1455, written in avowed imitation of Livy and Sallust , and possibly Thucydides (available in Greek, but translated into Latin by Valla only in 1450–52) in its use of speeches to explain decisions.
Italian term Literal translation Definition Lacuna: gap: A silent pause in a piece of music Ossia: from o ("or") + sia ("that it be") A secondary passage of music which may be played in place of the original Ostinato: stubborn, obstinate: A repeated motif or phrase in a piece of music Pensato: thought out: A composed imaginary note Ritornello ...
Carla Del Poggio (born 1925), Italian cinema, theatre and television actress; Febo di Poggio, Italian model associated with Michelangelo; Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Renaissance humanist; Julieta Poggio (born 2002), Argentine model, actress and dance teacher; Tomaso Poggio, Italian-born neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
The Florentine bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci recalled later in the century that Poggio had been a very fine calligrapher of lettera antica and had transcribed texts to support himself— presumably, as Martin Davies points out— [10] before he went to Rome in 1403 to begin his career in the papal curia.
The purpose of this information is to provide connections of Niccolo de' Niccoli to Poggio Bracciolini, and the alleged forgery of Tacitus and other works by the hand of Poggio, as is considered by Hochart and Ross, who wrote about the forgery in the 19th century CE as well as infomation which can be found within the Fomenko books.
The editio princeps of Diodorus was a Latin translation of the first five books by Poggio Bracciolini at Bologna in 1472. [28] The first printing of the Greek original (at Basel in 1535) contained only books 16–20, and was the work of Vincentius Opsopoeus .
The song has been recorded in a number of versions. The Italian version performed by Fran Jeffries appears in the film, but not on the soundtrack album.An instrumental that resembles the underscore of Jeffries' version is included on the soundtrack album, as is a group vocal with only vaguely related English lyrics (which can be heard in the film during the fancy-dress ball and costume party ...
Bracciolini is a surname of Italian origin. Notable people with the surname include: Francesco Bracciolini (1566-1645), Italian poet; Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), Italian scholar and Renaissance humanist