Bartolomeo Facio
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Bartolomeo Facio
(c. 1400–57). Humanist who studied with Guarino da Verona at Verona, before moving to Florence in 1429, and then to Genoa in 1430. He was sent as ambassador of the Republic of Genoa to Naples , whence he moved in 1445 as secretary and official historian to Alfonso of Aragon . His output includes works on grammar, two treatises on moral philosophy, a Latin novella (based on the Pecorone ), letters (mostly lost), four invectives against Lorenzo Valla , and the De viris illustribus, a series of lives of famous men, whose importance lies in the light it sheds on humanist historical methodology. [.]
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Bartolomeo Facio
Bartolomeo Facio (c. 1400 – 1457) was an Italian historian, writer and humanist.
Facio was born into a wealthy family of La Spezia, Liguria. He studied in Verona, Florence and Genoa and was a notary in Lucca and Genoa. In 1445 he moved to Naples at the service of King Alfonso V of Aragon as secretary and official historian.
His works include De viris illustribus (1456), De rebus gestis ab Alphonso I Neapolitanorum rege libri X (1448-1445), De bello veneto clodiano (published in 1568) and the moral treatises De humanae vitae felicitate and De excellentia ac praestantia hominis.
He died at Naples in 1457.
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