Brunetto Latini was an Italian philosopher, scholar, notary, politician and statesman.
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14 Facts About Brunetto Latini
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Brunetto Latini was born in Florence in 1220 to a Tuscan noble family, the son of Buonaccorso Latini.
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Brunetto Latini was a notary and a man of learning, much respected by his fellow citizens and famed for his skill as an orator.
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Brunetto Latini expounded the writings of Cicero as guidance in public affairs.
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Brunetto Latini took refuge in France from 1261 to 1268 while working as a notary in Montpellier, Arras, Bar-sur-Aube, and Paris.
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Brunetto Latini was the author of various works in prose and verse.
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Brunetto Latini died in 1294, leaving behind a daughter, Bianca Latini, who had married Guido Di Filippo De' Castiglionchi in 1284.
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Brunetto Latini translated into Italian the Rettorica and three Orations by Cicero.
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The Italian translation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is often misattributed to Brunetto Latini: it is a work of Taddeo Alderotti instead.
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Vittorio Imbriani took issue with that concept, saying Brunetto Latini was far too busy a man to have been a mere teacher.
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Dante's treatment of Brunetto Latini, however, is commendatory beyond almost any other figure in the 'Inferno'.
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Some therefore have suggested that Brunetto Latini is placed in Canto XV for being violent against art and against his vernacular.
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Yet, Brunetto Latini started working in the treatise in 1260, before Dante was born, and thus in a very different cultural climate, when French was the language of aristocracy.
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