Pietro Crinito (22 May 1474 – 5 July 1507), known as Crinitus, or Pietro Del Riccio Baldi (derived from Riccio, 'curly', translated into Latin as ''crinitus''), was a
Florentine humanist scholar and
poet
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who was a disciple of
Poliziano.
He is best known for his 1504
commonplace book, ''De honesta disciplina''. This has been taken to be a source for the work of
Nostradamus.
External links
(French language page)
(Italian language page)
1475 births
1507 deaths
Italian Renaissance humanists
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