Poliziano

Angelo Ambrogini (July 14, 1454 – September 24, 1494), commonly known by his nickname Poliziano, is an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance.

His scholarship is instrumental in the divergence of Renaissance (or Humanist) Latin from medieval norms and for developments in philology.

His nickname, Poliziano, by which he is chiefly identified to the present day, is derived from the Latin name of his birthplace, Montepulciano (Mons Politianus).

Poliziano's works include translations of passages from Homer's Iliad, an edition of the poetry of Catullus and commentaries on classical authors and literature.

It is his classical scholarship that brings him the attention of the wealthy and powerful Medici family that ruled Florence.

He serves the Medici as a tutor to their children, and later as a close friend and political confidante.

His later poetry, including La Giostra, glorifies his patrons.

He uses his didactic poem Manto, written in the 1480s, as an introduction to his lectures on Virgil.

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