Background
Brunetto Latini was born in Florence, Italy to a Tuscan noble family.
(Il Tesoretto - di Brunetto Latini - con biografia e intro...)
Il Tesoretto - di Brunetto Latini - con biografia e introduzione letteraria L'opera è composta in settenari a rima baciata, dalla struttura visionario-allegorica; nell'opera Brunetto tornata dalla Spagna incontra uno studente bolognese che lo mette al corrente delle battaglie tra guelfi e ghibellini. Per il dolore Brunetto perde la via e incontra l'impersonificazione della Natura, che dopo averlo istruito, lo accompagna dalle Virtù, che gli insegnano l'amor cortese e lo conducono da Amore, dove incontra Ovidio...
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Brunetto Latini was born in Florence, Italy to a Tuscan noble family.
After the disaster of Montaperti Brunetto Latini took refuge for some years (1261 - 1268) in France, but in 1269 returned to Tuscany and for some twenty years held successive high offices.
Latini was the author of various works in prose and verse. While in France he wrote in French his prose TrBsor, a summary of the encyclopaedic knowledge of the day (translated into Italian as Tesoro by Bono Giamboni in the 13th century), and in Italian his poem Tesoretto, rhymed couplets in heptasyllabic metre, a sort of abridgment put in allegorical form, the earliest Italian didactic verse.
(Il Tesoretto - di Brunetto Latini - con biografia e intro...)
Quotes from others about the person
Giovanni Villani says that " he was a great philosopher and a consummate master of rhetoric, not only in knowing how to speak well, but how to write well . .. He both began and directed the growth of the Florentines, both in making them ready in speaking well and in knowing how to guide and direct our republic according to the rules of politics. "
