Poliziano, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Poliziano

Italian writer

Date of Birth: 14-Jul-1454

Place of Birth: Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy

Date of Death: 29-Sep-1494

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Agnolo (Angelo) Ambrogini (14 July 1454 – 24 September 1494), commonly known by his nickname Poliziano (Italian: [polit'tsja?no]; anglicized as Politian; Latin: Politianus), was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance.
His scholarship was 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, was 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 was his classical scholarship that brought him the attention of the wealthy and powerful Medici family that ruled Florence.
He served the Medici as a tutor to their children, and later as a close friend and political confidante.
His later poetry, including La Giostra, glorified his patrons. He used his didactic poem Manto, written in the 1480s, as an introduction to his lectures on Virgil.



Alternative names	Birth name: Domenico di Tommaso Bigordi; Domenico Currado Bigordi; Domenico Ghirlandajo; Domenico Grillandajo
Description	Italian painter
Date of birth/death	1449	11 January 1494
Location of birth/death	Florence	Florence
Work location	San Gimignano (1475), Rome (1475), Florence, Rome (1477–1478), Settimo (1479), Lucca (1479), Florence (1480), Poltava (1480–1481), Rome (1481), San Gimignano (1482), Florence (1482–1492), Pisa
Authority control	: Q191423 VIAF: 61554420 ISNI: 0000 0001 2101 7520 ULAN: 500115228 LCCN: n83319383 NLA: 35053714 WorldCat