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NICCOLI, NICCOLO

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 646 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICCOLI, NICCOLO DE' (1363–1437), See also:Italian humanist, was See also:born and died at See also:Florence. He was one of the See also:chief figures in the See also:company of learned men which gathered See also:round Cosimo de' See also:Medici,who played the See also:part of See also:Augustus to Niccoli's See also:Maecenas. Niccoli's chief services to classical literature consisted in his See also:work as a copyist and collator of See also:ancient See also:MSS.; he corrected the See also:text, introduced divisions into chapters, and made tables of contents. His lack of See also:critical See also:faculty was compensated by his excellent See also:taste; in See also:Greek (of which he knew very little) he had the assistance of Ambrogio Traversari. Many of the most valuable MSS. in the Laurentian library are by his See also:hand, amongst them those of See also:Lucretius and of twelve comedies ofPlautus. Niccoli's private library was the largest and best in Florence; he also possessed a small but valuable collection of ancient See also:works of See also:art, coins and medals. He regarded himself as an infallible critic, and could not See also:bear the slightest See also:contradiction; his quarrels with See also:Filelfo, See also:Guarino and especially with Traversari created a See also:great sensation in the learned 'See also:world at the See also:time. His hypercritical spirit (according to his enemies, his See also:ignorance of the See also:language) prevented him from See also:writing or speaking in Latin; his See also:sole See also:literary work was a See also:short See also:tract in Italian on Latin See also:Orthography, which he withdrew from circulation after it had been violently attacked by Guarino. See the See also:Life in Traversarii Epistolae (ed. L. Mehus, 1759) ; G. Voigt, See also:Die Wiederbelebung See also:des klassischen Altertums (1893); G.

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Nicol() Niccoli (Florence, 1890).

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