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Italian writer
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Place of birth
Rome, Province of Rome, Lazio, Italy
Place of death
Venice, Province of Venice, Veneto, Italy
Age
65 years
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Biography
Francesco Tatti da Sansovino (1521–1586) was a versatile Italian scholar and man of letters, also known as a publisher.
Biography
Fracesco Sansavoni was born in Rome, the son of the sculptor Jacopo Sansovino, but soon moved to Venice then studied law at University of Padua and University of Bologna.
Works
Sansavoni is perhaps most known for his 1581 work Venetia citta nobilissima et singolare, Descritta in XIIII. Libri, known briefly as Venezia Descritta. He was also a literary critic, writing in particular on Dante and Giovanni Boccaccio.
- Historia universale dell'origine et imperio de'Turchi: Con le guerre successe in Persia, in Ongaria, in Transilvania, Valachia, sino l'anno 1600 (1600)
- Le antichità di Beroso Caldeo Sacerdote. Et d'altri scrittori, così Hebrei, come Greci et Latini, che trattano delle stesse materie (1583)
- Venetia, città nobilissima, et singolare, Descritta in XIIII. libri (1581) (link to 1663 ed.)
- Dell'origine dei Cavalieri, Venezia (1566)
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