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This biography, based principally on the subject's unpublished correspondence, reconstructs his upbringing, classical and rhetorical formation, and long teaching career across major Italian learning centers. It interweaves personal biography with thematic chapters on pedagogy, editorial work, intellectual networks, and the correspondences that illuminate cultural exchanges of the period, following successive phases of study, travel, and extended service at prominent courts and schools. The author adopts a readable, largely objective narrative that limits scholarly apparatus in order to present the subject's life and influence through his letters.
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