Leonardo Bruni
1369 – 1444 · aged 75
Italian humanist historian (c. 1370–1444)
- Born
- 1369 · Arezzo
- Died
- 1444 · Florence
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- 1369BornBorn in Arezzo
- 1444DiedDied in Florence
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- c. 1440Gutenberg’s printing press
Biography
Leonardo Bruni or Leonardo Aretino (c. 1370 – 9 March 1444) was an Italian humanist, historian and statesman, often recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. He has been called the first modern historian. He was the earliest person to write using the three-period view of history: Antiquity, Middle Ages, and Modern. The dates Bruni used to define the periods are not exactly what modern historians use today, but he laid the conceptual groundwork for a tripartite division of history.
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