#the Big find of his career was Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria

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Living for the chaos of Poggio and Niccoli’s friendship. One can’t leave Florence because he’s too fucking finicky and fussy to travel and the other is too distracted by the hot chicks with their pussy’s out to focus on manuscript hunting

#Poggio of course does go and successfully rediscover various manuscripts #but the sheer chaotic energy I get from reading about any interaction between Niccolo Niccoli and Poggio Bracciolini is hilarious #Poggio found stuff by Cicero and Vitruvius and Flaccus #the Big find of his career was Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria #early modern history #early modern italy #Poggio Bracciolini #Niccolo Niccoli #history #early modern period #15th century