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BRACCIOLINI, GIAN FRANCESCO, GIAN FRANCESCO, an Italian humanist; born in Castel Terranuova, near Florence, Feb. 11, 1380. By his untiring research of the monastery libraries of Switzerland and Germany he brought to light MSS. supposed to have been lost, of works of the ancient classics, as Quintilian, Valerius Flaccus, Ascanius, Statius, Ammianus, and many others.
He translated into Latin several of the Greek classics. His own writings are: "Facetiæ," a work of the same questionable character as others of the same title the book had 26 editions at the end of the 15th century; "Of the Variances of Fortune"; a "History of Florence"; "The Miseries of Human Life"; Poland, since the establishment of independence by that country after the World War, to split the radical opposition against the conservative government of the Paderewski régime.