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Latini, Brunetto
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Latini, Brunetto (brnĕt`tō lätē`nē), d. 1294?, Italian man of letters, a diplomat. He introduced French literature to Italy and wrote, in French, Li livres dou tresor, the first vernacular encyclopedia. It was an immediate success. Dante praised him in the Divine Comedy.


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At various points he calls upon, to select only a few of almost countless examples, the twelfth-century moralist Peter the Chanter, Dante's thirteenth-century friend Brunetto Latini, the fourteenth-century poets William Langland and Geoffrey Chaucer, the fifteenth-century essayists Leon Battista Alberti and Christine de Pizan and the philosopher Marsilio Ficino, and the sixteenth-century satirists Francois Rabelais and Pietro Aretino.
Alcohol, Sex, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. ... by Farr, James R. / Journal of Social History
Prior to the Quattrocento, writers such as Albertino Mussato and Brunetto Latini wrote that the growth of private wealth was a corrupting force in private life.
Civic Humanism and the Rise of the Medici [*] by JURDJEVIG, MARK / Renaissance Quarterly
Similar creatures were portrayed by other medieval notables, for example, by Albertus Magnus (De Animalibus 22:2,1) and Brunetto Latini (Tresor 5:59).
An exemplary humanist hybrid: Vasari's "Fraude" with reference to ... by Moffitt, John F. / Renaissance Quarterly
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