BRUNETTO See also:

• BRUNETTO LATINI (c. 1210-C. 1294)

LATINI (c. 1210-C. 1294)  , See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian philosopher and See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence, and belonged to the See also:

• GUELPH

Guelph party . After the disaster of Montaperti he took See also:

• REFUGE

refuge for some years (1261–1268) in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, but in 1269 returned to See also:

• TUSCANY
• TUSCANY (Toscana)

Tuscany and for some twenty years held successive high offices . Giovanni See also:

• VILLANI, GIOVANNI (c. 1245-1348)

Villani says that " he was a See also:

• GREAT

great philosopher and a consummate See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of See also:

• RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric, not only in knowing how to speak well, but how to write well . . . . He both began and directed the growth of the Florentines, both in making them ready in speaking well and in knowing how to See also:

• GUIDE (in Mid. Eng. gyde, from the Fr. guide; the earlier French form was guie, English " guy," the d was due to the Italian form guida; the ultimate origin is probably Teutonic, the word being connected with the base seen in O. Eng. witan, to know)

guide and See also:

• DIRECT

direct our See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic according to the rules of politics." He was the author of various See also:

• WORKS

works in See also:

• PROSE

prose and See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse . While in France he wrote in See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French his prose Tresor, a See also:

• SUMMARY

summary of the encyclopaedic knowledge of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day (translated into Italian as Tesoro by Bono Giamboni in the 13th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century), and in Italian his poem Tesoretto, rhymed couplets in heptasyllabic See also:

• METRE ((terpuc?, sc. rFxvf, from Gr. Or poi', measure)

metre, a sort of abridgment put in allegorical See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, the earliest Italian didactic verse . He is famous as the friend and counsellor of See also:

• DANTE

Dante (see Inferno, xv . 82-87) . For the Tresor see P . Chabville's edition (1863) ; for the Tesoro, Gaiter's edition (1878) ; for the Tesoretto, B . Wiese's study in Zeitschrift fitr romanische Philologie, vii . See also the See also:

• BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical and See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical accounts of Brunetto See also:

• LATINI, BRUNETTO (c. 1210-C. 1294)

Latini by Thoe Sundby (1884), and Marchesini (1887 and 1890) .