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Francesco Filelfo

1398-07-25 – 1481-07-31

Portrait of Francesco Filelfo
Francesco Filelfo (1398–1481), italienischer Humanist. Anoymer StichCredit: Unknown author

Life & Legacy

Francesco Filelfo (Latin: Franciscus Philelphus; 25 July 1398 – 31 July 1481) was an Italian Renaissance humanist and author of the philosophic dialogue On Exile.

Occupation & Career

translator, university teacher, diplomat, poet, orator, philosopher, classical philologist, humanist, writer, scribe

Education

University of Padua

Accomplishments, Inventions & Publications

Consolatio ad Iacobum Antonium Marcellum de obitu Valerii filii; Rhetorica ad Alexandrum; Letters; Orazioni in lode dello illustrissimo poeta Dante Alighieri; Troicus; Commentationes Florentinae de exilo; De ilio non capto; Περὶ ψυχαγωγίας; Carminum libri; Euthyphron; Respublica Lacedaemoniorum; Commento ai Rerum vulgarium fragmenta; Oratio parentalis; De Genuensium deditione; Sphortias; Cyri Paedia; Numa; Lycurgus; Fabulae; Agesilaus; Satyrae

Legacy Highlights

Employer

University of Bologna · University of Florence · University of Siena

Notable Work

Agesilaus · Carminum libri · Commentationes Florentinae de exilo · Commento ai Rerum vulgarium fragmenta · Consolatio ad Iacobum Antonium Marcellum de obitu Valerii filii · Cyri Paedia · De Genuensium deditione · De ilio non capto · Euthyphron · Fabulae · Letters · Lycurgus · Numa · Oratio parentalis · Orazioni in lode dello illustrissimo poeta Dante Alighieri · Respublica Lacedaemoniorum · Rhetorica ad Alexandrum · Satyrae · Sphortias · Troicus · Περὶ ψυχαγωγίας

Education & Institutions

University of Padua

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Sources & Provenance

  1. Wikidata population candidate Q4622 — wikidata View source

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