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    Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503), later known as Giovanni Gioviano (Latin: Ioannes Iovianus Pontanus), was a humanist and poet from Cerreto di Spoleto, in...
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  • Giovanni Battista Pontano or Giovanni Battista Montano (died 1662) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Oppido Mamertina (1632–1662)....
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  • alphabet". It was first coined in a Latin dialogue by the Italian humanist Giovanni Pontano in the 15th century. Alliteration is used in the alliterative verse...
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    and trans. Mary P. Chatfield, trans. Betty Radice, 2005 Baiae, Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, ed. and trans. Dennis G. Rodney, 2006 Letters, Volume 1, Angelo...
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  • Giovanni Pontano, a distinguished writer, and his beautiful wife Lidia visit their dying friend Tommaso Garani in a hospital in Milan. Giovanni's new...
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    Maggiore alla Pietrasanta. The chapel was built in 1492 by humanist Giovanni Pontano as funerary chapel for his beloved wife Adriana Sassone. The architects...
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    father's humanist court. His tutor between 1468 and 1475 was the humanist Giovanni Pontano, whose De principe describes the proper virtues and manner of life...
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  • (1421–1481) (Italian/Roman) Vespasiano da Bisticci (1421–1498) (Italian) Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503) (Italian/Neapolitan) Julius Pomponius Laetus (1428–1498)...
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    which gave examples of leadership behavior to educate future rulers. Giovanni Pontano, Bartolomeo Sacchi, Leon Battista Alberti and Baldassare Castiglione...
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  • planet Jovians, a non-playable race in Eve Online Iovianus Pontanus (Giovanni Pontano), an Italian humanist poet Jovian Chronicles, a science-fiction game...
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    Giovanni Pontano, Antonio Beccadelli and many others. The Panormita was the second secretary of the King and President of the Chamber . Il Pontano succeeded...
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    years ago. The crater is named after the 15th-century Italian poet Giovanni Pontano. By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing...
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    V was a patron of the arts. He founded the Academy of Naples under Giovanni Pontano, and for his entrance into the city in 1443 had a magnificent triumphal...
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    in Naples during the revival of classical learning and later led by Giovanni Pontano who gave it a more official character to the meetings. The Accademia...
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    Castel Capuano, and one of her teachers was the poet and humanist Giovanni Pontano. She was interested in music and poetry, and in her spare time she...
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    period, with many of whom he formed working collaborations. One friend, Giovanni Pontano, dedicated a work to him, entitled Ægidius. Antonini is famous in ecclesiastical...
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    Spoleto was taken by the troops fighting for the unification of Italy. Giovanni Pontano, founder of the Accademia Pontaniana of Naples, was born here. Another...
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    bell'Antonio Antonio Magnano Adua and Friends Piero Salvagni 1961 La notte Giovanni Pontano L'assassino Alfredo Martelli Fantasmi a Roma Reginaldo di Roviano /...
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    Porticus Antoniana, later known as the Accademia Pontaniana, after Giovanni Pontano. The 16th century saw at Rome a great increase of literary and aesthetic...
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  • also analyzed by humanist scholars. In Naples, the humanist and poet Giovanni Pontano wrote a philosophical and ethical treatise De magnificentia (1498)...
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    playing a guest at a party celebrating the publication of protagonist Giovanni Pontano (Marcello Mastroianni)'s new book by Bompiani (where Eco was an editor...
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  • humanists from the Kingdom of Naples, particularly Jacopo Sannazaro and Giovanni Pontano. He graduated from the University of Naples Federico II where he studied...
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    influenced by the Medici court and mysticism and author of Song of songs), Giovanni Pontano, Mario Equicola and monk Egidio da Viterbo. Leon was surrounded by...
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    forces near Rome. In the Accademia Pontaniana that collected around Giovanni Pontano (Jovianus Pontanus), he took the classicizing nom de plume of Actius...
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    and poets who surrounded Alfonso, including Antonio Beccadelli and Giovanni Pontano. Hopes that Maria would die and make the marriage between Lucrezia...
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    (October 1502) Urania, Meteora, The Gardens of the Hesperides, etc., Giovanni Pontano (May–August 1505) On Hunting, Adriano Castellesi (September 1505) Adages...
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  • Renaissance saw the essay taken up by figures like Guarino da Verona and Giovanni Pontano. Edward Gibbon, who wrote of “the inimitable Lucian”, owned the 1776...
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  • The term alliteration was invented by the Italian humanist Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503), in his dialogue Actius, to describe the practice common in Virgil...
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    manuscript to use in the Vivian Bible. In 1448, the Italian humanist Giovanni Pontano studied and collected the manuscript. At that time, as the manuscript...
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    Beccadelli, Andrea Trapesunzio, Tommaso Pontano [it] and Jacopo Rizzoni, as well as letters from Nogarola and Giovanni Pontano. Some of his correspondence is preserved...
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