Bernardo Davanzati (1529 – 1606) was an Italian agronomist, economist and translator. Bernardo Davanzati Allori

Davanzati was major translator of

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His ''Scisma d'Inghilterra'' was first published in 1602 in Rome. It was a concise version of a work of Girolamo Pollini, on the

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, which itself was dependent on a Latin work of 1585 written by

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and

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used its

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s (from the 1638 edition) as an illustration on his ''

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''.

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External links

treccani.it, ''Davanzati, Bernardo''.
1529 births 1606 deaths Italian agronomists Italian economists Italian translators Writers from Florence Italian Renaissance people Latin–Italian translators 16th-century translators 16th-century Italian writers 16th-century male writers {{Italy-academic-bio-stub