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    Vespasiano da Bisticci (1421 – 1498) was an Italian humanist and librarian of the early Renaissance period. Born near Rignano sull'Arno, not far from Florence...
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    chief book scout." He engaged 45 copyists under the bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci to transcribe manuscripts and paid off the debts of Niccolò de'...
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    Schriften, (Leipzig and Berlin) 1932: v. I, 165. Hatfield 1970, p. 235, Vespasiano da Bisticci estimated that the structure alone had cost 60,000 ducats; the inventory...
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  • (1419-1489) (Frisian) Bartolomeo Platina (1421–1481) (Italian/Roman) Vespasiano da Bisticci (1421–1498) (Italian) Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503) (Italian/Neapolitan)...
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    commissioned by Federico III da Montefeltro, Condottiero, and Duke of Urbino, through his Florentine book merchant, Vespasiano da Bisticci. For the text of the...
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    the first decade of the 15th century. The Florentine bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci recalled later in the century that Poggio had been a very fine calligrapher...
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    sent as Florentine ambassador to the court of Alfonso I of Naples. Vespasiano da Bisticci included him among the illustrious men of his generation whose careers...
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    Magnificent), Piero de’ Cosimo de' Medici, Cosimo il Vecchio, and Vespasiano da Bisticci. He gained a reputation for his well executed illustrations in varying...
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    painting. In addition, in his biography of Federico da Montefeltro, his former librarian, Vespasiano da Bisticci, attests that van Gent made the series of 28...
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    the first decade of the 15th century. The Florentine bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci recalled later in the century that Poggio had been a very fine calligrapher...
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    Roman court with scholars and artists, including Lorenzo Valla and Vespasiano da Bisticci. On 4 September 1449 Nicholas proclaimed a Jubilee for the following...
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    Augustine's complete works were commissioned from the bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci. Bessarion acquired several works from Giovanni Aurispa and later...
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  • painter, art critic and caricaturist Vespasiano da Bisticci (1421–1498), Florentine humanist and librarian Vespasiano Colonna (c. 1485–1528), Italian nobleman...
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    Archpriest of the Lateran Basilica in 1437. Vespasiano (da Bisticci), "Life of Pope Eugenius IV", in: The Vespasiano Memoirs: Lives of Illustrious Men of the...
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    as "Perotti's Appendix". Together with the Florentine bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci, he collected books for the Papal library. He died in Sassoferrato...
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    men." The Duke's library was famous, organized by the humanist Vespasiano da Bisticci, and was full of codices with valuable illuminated pages. Federico...
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    painting. In addition, in his biography of Federico da Montefeltro, his former librarian, Vespasiano da Bisticci, attests that van Wassenhove made the series...
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    the first decade of the 15th century. The Florentine bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci recalled later in the century that Poggio had been a very fine calligrapher...
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  • Captain Dragonetti David Sterne as Blind Beggar Bill Thomas as Vespasiano da Bisticci Celyn Jones as Fabrizio Paul Westwood as Niccolo Ardinghelli Rowena...
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    Lombardia del suo tempo", Nuova Rivista Storica 1.2 (1986). Noted by Vespasiano da Bisticci, Vite. "History of the College". collegiocastiglionibrugnatelli...
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  • King published The Bookseller of Florence, a nonfiction book about Vespasiano da Bisticci. He lectures frequently in both Europe and North America, and has...
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    Slavonian origin (de origine Slavonica). His biographer and friend Vespasiano da Bisticci said that he was of Slavic nationality. According to Ronsano of...
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    to be opened to the public in the Renaissance, was arranged by Vespasiano da Bisticci according to the dictates of Tommaso Sarzana, who later became Pope...
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    the learned Greek and Latin scholar, wrote in the vernacular, and Vespasiano da Bisticci, while he was constantly absorbed in Greek and Latin manuscripts...
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  • capacity for friendship. — The Times obituary Translation of parts of Vespasiano da Bisticci, Vite de uomini illustri del secolo XV, ed. Lodovico Frati (Bologna...
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    Canterbury & York Society. Vol. 99. de la Mare, Albinia (1962-3). "Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Florentine MSS. of Robert Flemmyng in Lincoln College,"...
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  • in the collection of Giovanni Andrea Irico [fr], cols. 69–248. Vespasiano da Bisticci: The lives of Eugene IV and Nicholas V (Eugenii IV et Nicolai V...
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  • examining the Vite di uomini illustri of Florentine bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci, and striving to trace the manuscripts he published — proved so...
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    Press (1985); page 72. Vite di uomini illustri del secolo 15; by Vespasiano da Bisticci, Angelo Mai, Adolfo Bartoli, page 440. Burckhardt, Jacob (1878)...
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  • Tiraboschi, History of Italian Literature, Vol. VI, ed. Florence, 1819 Vespasiano da Bisticci, Lives of Illustrious Men of the Fifteenth Century', ed. Barbera-Bianchi...
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