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NICCOLI, NICCOLO

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 646 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NEW-NUM
NICCOLI, NICCOLO DE' (13631437), Italian humanist, was born and died at Florence. He was one of the
chief
  figures in the company of learned men which gathered round Cosimo de' Medici,who played the part of
Augustus
  to
Niccoli
 's Maecenas.
Niccoli
 's
chief
  services to classical literature consisted in his
work
  as a copyist and collator of ancient MSS.; he corrected the text, introduced divisions into chapters, and made tables of contents. His lack of
critical
  faculty was compensated by his excellent
taste
 ; in Greek (of which he knew very little) he had the assistance of Ambrogio Traversari. Many of the most valuable MSS. in the Laurentian library are by his hand, amongst them those of Lucretius and of twelve comedies ofPlautus. Niccoli's private library was the largest and best in Florence; he also possessed a small but valuable collection of ancient works of art, coins and medals. He regarded himself as an infallible critic, and could not
bear
  the slightest contradiction; his quarrels with Filelfo, Guarino and especially with Traversari created a
great
  sensation in the learned 'world at the time. His hypercritical spirit (according to his enemies, his ignorance of the language) prevented him from writing or speaking in Latin; his sole literary
work
  was a short
tract
  in Italian on Latin Orthography, which he withdrew from circulation after it had been violently attacked by Guarino.
See the Life in Traversarii Epistolae (ed. L. Mehus, 1759) ; G. Voigt, Die Wiederbelebung des klassischen Altertums (1893); G. Zippel,
Nicol
 () Niccoli (Florence, 1890).


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