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Francesco Tatti da Sansovino (1521–1586) was a versatile Italian scholar, humanist (one of the most important of his century) and man of letters, also known as a publisher.
Biography
[edit]Francesco Sansovino was born in Rome, the son of the sculptor Jacopo Sansovino, but soon moved to Venice and later studied law at the universities of Padua and Bologna.
Works
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Sansovino is perhaps most known for his 1581 work Venetia città nobilissima et singolare, Descritta in XIIII. Libri, known briefly as Venezia Descritta.[1] He was also a literary critic, writing in particular on Dante and Giovanni Boccaccio.
- Del governo e amministrazione di diversi regni e republiche (1562)
- Della materia medicinale, Venice, Giovanni Andrea Valvassori, 1562.
- Del governo e amministrazione di diversi regni e republiche (1562)
- Del governo dei regni e delle repubbliche così antiche come moderne (in Italian). Venice: Giovanni Antonio Bertano. 1578.
- Dell'origine dei Cavalieri, Venice, 1566.
- Venetia, città nobilissima, et singolare, Descritta in XIIII libri (1581); 1663 edition
- Le antichità di Beroso Caldeo Sacerdote. Et d'altri scrittori, così Hebrei, come Greci et Latini, che trattano delle stesse materie (1583)
- Concetti politici (1583) found in Propositioni, overo considerationi in materia di cose di Stato, sotto titolo di avvertimenti, avvedimenti civili et concetti politici (1588)
- Historia universale dell'origine et imperio de'Turchi: Con le guerre successe in Persia, in Ongaria, in Transilvania, Valachia, sino l'anno 1600 (1600)
References
[edit]- ^ Hart, Vaughan, Hicks, Peter (2017). Sansovino’s Venice, Yale University Press, London and New Haven, ISBN 978-0300175066
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