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ACCIAJUOLI, DONATO (1428-1478)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 114 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACCIAJUOLI, DONATO (1428-1478) , See also:Italian See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Florence in 1428. He was famous for his learning, especially in See also:Greek and See also:mathematics, and for his services to his native See also:state. Having previously been entrusted with several important embassies, he became Gonfalonier of Florence in 1473. He died at See also:Milan in 1478, when on his way to See also:Paris to ask the aid of See also:Louis XI. on behalf of the Florentines against See also:Pope See also:Sixtus IV. His See also:body was taken back to Florence, and buried in the See also:church of the See also:Carthusians at the public expense, and his daughters were portioned by his See also:fellow-citizens, the See also:fortune he See also:left being, owing to his probity and disinterestedness, very small. He wrote a Latin See also:translation of some of See also:Plutarch's Lives (Florence, 1478); Commentaries on See also:Aristotle's See also:Ethics and Politics; and the lives of See also:Hannibal, Scipio and See also:Charlemagne. In the See also:work on Aristotle he had the co-operation of his See also:master See also:Argyropulus.

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