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BRUNETTO See also: Italian philosopher and See also: scholar, was See also: born in Florence, and belonged to the See also: Guelph party
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After the disaster of Montaperti he took See also: refuge for some years (1261–1268) in See also: France, but in 1269 returned to See also: Tuscany and for some twenty years held successive high offices
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Giovanni See also: Villani says that " he was a See also: great philosopher and a consummate master of rhetoric, not only in knowing how to speak well, but how to write well
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. He both began and directed the growth of the Florentines, both in making them ready in speaking well and in knowing how to guide and See also: direct our republic according to the rules of politics." He was the author of various See also: works in See also: prose and verse
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While in France he wrote in French his prose Tresor, a See also: summary of the encyclopaedic knowledge of the See also: day (translated into Italian as Tesoro by Bono Giamboni in the 13th century), and in Italian his poem Tesoretto, rhymed couplets in heptasyllabic metre, a sort of abridgment put in allegorical See also: form, the earliest Italian didactic verse
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He is famous as the friend and counsellor of See also: Dante (see Inferno, xv
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82-87)
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For the Tresor see P
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Chabville's edition (1863) ; for the Tesoro, Gaiter's edition (1878) ; for the Tesoretto, B
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Wiese's study in Zeitschrift fitr romanische Philologie, vii
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See also the See also: biographical and critical accounts of Brunetto See also: Latini by Thoe Sundby (1884), and Marchesini (1887 and 1890)
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