Francesco Tatti da Sansovino (1521–1586) was a versatile Italian

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, humanist (one of the most important of his century) and

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, also known as a

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Biography

Francesco Sansovino was born in

Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

, the son of the sculptor

Jacopo Sansovino Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino (2 July 1486 – 27 November 1570) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect, best known for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. These are crucial works in the history of Venetian Renaissance archi ...

, but soon moved to

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

and later studied law at the universities of

Padua Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...

and

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

Works

Sansovino, Francesco – Del governo dei regni e delle repubbliche così antiche come moderne, 1578 – BEIC 13722807

Sansovino is perhaps most known for his 1581 work ''Venetia città nobilissima et singolare, Descritta in XIIII. Libri'', known briefly as ''Venezia Descritta''.Hart, Vaughan, Hicks, Peter (2017). ''Sansovino’s Venice,'' Yale University Press, London and New Haven, He was also a literary critic, writing in particular on

Dante Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: '' ...

and

Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio (, , ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was somet ...

. * ''Del governo e amministrazione di diversi regni e republiche'' (1562) *
Della materia medicinale
', Venice, Giovanni Andrea Valvassori, 1562. * ''Del governo e amministrazione di diversi regni e republiche'' (1562) ** * ''Dell'origine dei Cavalieri'', Venice, 1566. *''Venetia, città nobilissima, et singolare, Descritta in XIIII libri'' (1581)
1663 edition
*''Le antichità di Beroso Caldeo Sacerdote. Et d'altri scrittori, così Hebrei, come Greci et Latini, che trattano delle stesse materie'' (1583) *''Concetti politici'' (1583) found in ''Propositioni, overo considerationi in materia di cose di Stato, sotto titolo di avvertimenti, avvedimenti civili et concetti politici'' (1588) *

' (1600)

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1521 births 1586 deaths Italian male writers {{Italy-writer-stub