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Pietro Ippolito da Luni ( la, Petrus Hippolytus Lunensis) was the royal scribe (''librarius regius'') of the

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from 1472 to 1492.. He was a native of the Lunigiana.. In 1473, Ippolito copied manuscripts 692 and 408 of the of the University of Valencia. Both were illuminated by

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and ended up in the library of Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria.Marci Fabii Quintiliani De institutione oratoria
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at RODERIC, Universitat de València. In 1491–1493, in collaboration with the illuminator , Ippolito copied Harley 3481 and Harley 3482 of the British Library and ''Est. lat.'' 469 of the Biblioteca Estense for King

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.. Besides his work for the royal court, Ippolito copied manuscripts for several members of the Carafa family. He copied the manuscript ''Reg. lat.'' 812 for Count Diomede Carafa; ''Vat. lat.'' 7230 for the count's son, Giovan Tommaso Carafa; ''Vat. lat.'' 3551 for Cardinal Oliviero Carafa; and ''Vat. lat.'' 3297 for the cardinal's nephew, Bernardino Carafa. All these manuscripts are now in the Vatican Library.. In addition to a copyist, Ippolito was a scholar and translator. He sometimes engaged in sophisticated textual criticism. According to his notice, he edited the text of

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's translations of Plato in Harley 3481. A similar note appears in ''Reg. lat.'' 1792.. Between about 1491 and 1492, Ippolito created an anthology of philosophical sayings drawn from works he had copied, translating them from Latin into Tuscan. Entitled ''Auree Sententie e Proverbi Platonici'', this anthology is founded in Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, XII E 32, where it is illustrated by Felice. It may be a presentation copy for an unknown patron. The manuscript XII E 31 contains a

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translated by Ippolito for the courtier Aloysio Corellio.

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