Poggio Bracciolini

Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (11 February 1380-30 October 1459), best known simply as Poggio Bracciolini, was an Italian scholar and an early humanist. He was responsible for rediscovering and recovering a great number of classical Latin manuscripts, mostly decaying and forgotten in German, Swiss, and French monastic libraries. His most celebrated find was De rerum natura, the only surviving work by Lucretius. Edward Augustine Storer was an English writer, translator and poet.

Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (11 February 1380-30 October 1459), best known simply as Poggio Bracciolini, was an Italian scholar and an early humanist. He was responsible for rediscovering and recovering a great number of classical Latin manuscripts, mostly decaying and forgotten in German, Swiss, and French monastic libraries. His most celebrated find was De rerum natura, the only surviving work by Lucretius. Edward Augustine Storer was an English writer, translator and poet. See less