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He was born at Terranuova, February 11, 1380.
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He was born at Terranuova, February 11, 1380.
Taken by his father to Florence to pursue the studies for which he appeared so apt, he studied Latin under Giovanni Malpaghino of Ravenna, the friend and protégé of Petrarch. His distinguished abilities and his dexterity as a copyist of manuscripts brought him into early notice with the chief scholars of Florence: both Coluccio Salutati and Niccolò de' Niccoli befriended him. He studied notarial law, and, at the age of twenty-one he was received into the Florentine notaries' guild, the Arte dei giudici e notai.
Secretary to eight popes, he was renowned as a copyist of manuscripts and as a discoverer of many rare manuscripts in monasteries, including some of Cicero, Lucretius, Plautus, and Livy. In 1453 he became chancellor of Florence. His own works, all in Latin, give a vivid picture of his times; among them are Contra hypocrites (1447 - 1448) and De infelicitate principum (1440).
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Quotations:
“Let us spend our leisure with our books, which will take our minds off these troubles, and will teach us to despise what many people desire. ”
“I am determined not to assume the sacerdotal office, for I have seen many men whom I have regarded as persons of good character and liberal dispositions, degenerate into avarice, sloth, and dissipation, in consequence of their introduction into the priesthood. ”
In December 1435, at age 56, tired of the unstable character of his single life, Poggio left his long-term mistress and delegitimized the fourteen children he had had with the mistress, scoured Florence for a wife, and married a girl not yet eighteen, Selvaggia dei Buondelmonti. In spite of the remonstrances and dire predictions of all his friends about the age discrepancy, the marriage was a happy one, producing five sons and a daughter.