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See also: Italian poet, was See also: born at See also: Pistoia, of a See also: noble See also: family, in 1566
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On his removing to Florence he was admitted into the See also: academy there, and devoted himself to literature
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At See also: Rome he entered the service of See also: Cardinal Maffeo See also: Barberini, with whom he afterwards went to See also: France
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After the See also: death of See also: Clement VIII. he returned to his own country; and when his See also: patron Barberini was elected See also: pope, under the name of See also: Urban VIII., See also: Bracciolini repaired to Rome, and was made secretary to the pope's See also: brother, Cardinal Antonio
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He had also the honour conferred on him of taking a surname from the arms of the Barberini family, which were bees; whence he was after-wards known by the name of Bracciolini dell' Api
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During Urban's pontificate the poet lived at Rome in considerile reputation, though at the same See also: time he was censured for his sordid avarice
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On the death of the pontiff he returned to Pistoia, where he died in 1645
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There is scarcely any See also: species of See also: poetry, epic, dramatic, pastoral, lyric or burlesque, which Bracciolini did not attempt; but he is principally noted for his See also: mock-heroic poem Lo Schema degli Dei, published in 1618, similar but confessedly inferior to the contemporary See also: work of See also: Tassoni, Secchia Rapita
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Of his serious heroic poems the most celebrated is La Croce Raequistata
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For the Italian humanist See also: Poggio Bracciolini see Po0Gmo
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