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Volume 9 · 108 words · 1778 Edition

(Angelo), was born at Monte Pulciano in Tuscany in 1454. He was one of the most learned and polite writers of his time. The first work which gained him a reputation was a poem on the tournament of Julian de Medici. The account he wrote some time after of the conspiracy of the Pazzi's was very much esteemed. He wrote many other pieces, which have merited approbation; and had he lived longer, he would have enriched the republic of letters with many excellent works; but he died at the age of 40 years. His morals answered the homeliness of his face rather than the beauty of his genius.