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LEONARDO BRUNI (1369-1444)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 684 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRUNI (1369-1444)  , See also:Italian See also:scholar, author of the See also:History of See also:Florence, was See also:born at See also:Arezzo, and is generally known as Leonardo See also:Aretino . He was secretary to the papal See also:chancery under See also:Innocent VII. and See also:John XXII . From 1427 to his See also:death in 1444 he was See also:chancellor to the See also:republic of Florence . He was buried at the expense of the See also:state in Sta Croce, where his laurelled statue is still to be seen . He was the first to See also:free the history of Florence from its fabulous elements, but his See also:book, though not unintelligent, only repays very laborious study . The only Latin edition is Historiarum Florentinarum libri xii . . . exempts, in lucem edit. See also:stud. et op . Sixti Brunonis (Argentor . 161o, fol.) . A See also:translation into Tuscan was published by Donato See also:Acciajuoli in 1476 at See also:Venice, was republished at Florence in 1492, and again, with See also:Sansovino's continuation, at Venice in 1561 .

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