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Poggio Bracciolini

1380 – 1459 CE

Gladiatorial orator, personal secretary to 7 popes including the “Antipope” John XXIII, scholar, early humanist, prolific and for his time astonishing writer; Poggio helped develop the Italic font, invented the Roman font still popular today, and helped spark a rebirth of old wisdom that led Europe out of the Dark Ages, into science and our modern age. Profuse traveller, friend to the great scholars of his time as well as politicians like Pope Nicolas V, Cosimo and Lorenzo de' Medici who supported his efforts to find and preserve ancient Greek and Roman manuscripts; he discovered and copied a large number of important classical works forgotten and decaying in old libraries including De Rerum Natura, Lucretius’ only surviving book.

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Nel VI Centenario della Nascita

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“For fear of becoming miserable, we never cease to be so.”

from Nel VI Centenario della Nascita

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“Always panting for riches and never giving our souls or our bodies a moment's peace, we are thrown into a continuous state of misery and anxiety.”

from Nel VI Centenario della Nascita

Themes: Greed Wealth Health

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“Those who are content with little live day by day and treat any day like a feast day.”

from Nel VI Centenario della Nascita

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“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature—opposition to it, is his love of justice.”

from Nel VI Centenario della Nascita

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