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Giovanni Calfurnio
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Giovanni Calfurnio

Brescia, 1443 - 1503
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BiographyGiovanni Calfurnio Da Brescia (1443-1503) was a high-profile humanist who taught at the University of Padua. He and his colleagues formed a close community of philologists whose activity epitomized the Italian humanism of the 15th century.1

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1. Cox, V. (2003). Rhetoric and humanism in Quattrocento Venice. Renaissance Quarterly, 56(3), 652-694. Retrieved on March 1, 2009 from JSTOR database.
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