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BRACCIOLINI, FRANCESCO (1566-1645)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 358 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BRACCIOLINI, FRANCESCO (1566-1645) , Italian poet, was born at
Pistoia
 , of a noble family, in 1566. On his removing to Florence he was admitted into the
academy
  there, and devoted himself to literature. At Rome he entered the service of
Cardinal
  Maffeo Barberini, with whom he afterwards went to France. After the death of Clement VIII. he returned to his own country; and when his
patron
  Barberini was elected
pope
 , under the name of Urban VIII., Bracciolini repaired to Rome, and was made secretary to the
pope
 's brother,
Cardinal
  Antonio. He had also the honour conferred on him of taking a surname from the arms of the Barberini family, which were bees; whence he was after-wards known by the name of Bracciolini dell' Api. During Urban's pontificate the poet lived at Rome in considerile reputation, though at the same time he was censured for his sordid avarice. On the death of the pontiff he returned to
Pistoia
 , where he died in 1645. There is scarcely any species of poetry, epic, dramatic,
pastoral
 , lyric or
burlesque
 , which Bracciolini did not attempt; but he is principally noted for his mock-heroic poem Lo Schema degli Dei, published in 1618, similar but confessedly inferior to the contemporary
work
  of Tassoni, Secchia Rapita. Of his serious heroic poems the most celebrated is La Croce Raequistata.
For the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini see Po0Gmo.


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