Francesco Sansovino
Illustration — Portrait of Francesco Sansovino Francesco Tatti da Sansovino (1521–1586) was a versatile Italian scholar, humanist (one of the most important of his century) and man of letters, also known as a publisher.
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Francesco Sansovino

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- Full name
- Francesco Tatti.
- Born
- 1521. · Rome.
- Nationality
- Republic of Venice.
- Occupation
- polygraph, poet, translator and typographer.
- Education
- University of Padua and University of Bologna.
- Teachers
- Lazarus Buonamici.
- Known for
- Ritratto delle più nobili et famose città d'Italia.
- Languages
- Italian and Latin.
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Illustration — Portrait of Francesco Sansovino Francesco Tatti da Sansovino (1521–1586) was a versatile Italian scholar, humanist (one of the most important of his century) and man of letters, also known as a publisher.
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Francesco Sansovino studied at University of Padua and University of Bologna. Training under Lazarus Buonamici is recorded. The recorded working language is Italian and Latin. Places of work recorded in the authority are Venice. Works named in the authority record are Ritratto delle più nobili et famose città d'Italia.
Francesco Sansovino was born in Rome, the son of the sculptor Jacopo Sansovino, but soon moved to Venice and later studied law at the universities of Padua and Bologna.
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Works
• Illustration — Del governo dei regni e delle repubbliche così antiche come moderne, 1578 Sansovino is perhaps most known for his 1581 work Venetia città nobilissima et singolare, Descritta in XIIII. Libri, known briefly as Venezia Descritta. He was also a literary critic, writing in particular on Dante and Giovanni Boccaccio. • Del governo e amministrazione di diversi regni e republiche (1562) • Della materia medicinale, Venice, Giovanni Andrea Valvassori, 1562. • Del governo e amministrazione di diversi regni e republiche (1562) • L'historia di casa Orsina di Francesco Sansouino, Venice 1565 • Dell'origine dei Cavalieri, Venice, 1566. * • Venetia, città nobilissima, et singolare, Descritta in XIIII libri (1581); 1663 edition • Le antichità di Beroso Caldeo Sacerdote. Et d'altri scrittori, così Hebrei, come Greci et Latini, che trattano delle stesse materie (1583) • Concetti politici (1583) found in Propositioni, overo considerationi in materia di cose di Stato, sotto titolo di avvertimenti, avvedimenti civili et concetti politici (1588) • Historia universale dell'origine et imperio de'Turchi: Con le guerre successe in Persia, in Ongaria, in Transilvania, Valachia, sino l'anno 1600 (1600)

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Rome.
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- 1.Hart, Vaughan, Hicks, Peter (2017). Sansovino’s Venice, Yale University Press, London and New Haven,
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- Francesco Scipione, marchese di MaffeiAuthor
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