SANSOVINO

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SANSOVINO, Francesco (1521-1583)

Venetia, 1568

EST…4.000 USDFrancesco Sansovino (1521-1586) was an Italian scholar and humanist, sometimes known as Giovanni Tatti. Born in Rome, son of the sculptor Jacopo Sansovino, he studied law at the universities of Padua and Bologna and then lived in Venice. Besides nearly a dozen historical works, he was a literary critic of Dante and Boccacio. WorldCat accounts for 293 publications by Venetian printer Altobello Salicato (c1545 – c 1609) with 3 editions of this title published in 1582 held by 16 collections.