Francesco Sansovino
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Francesco Tatti da Sansovino (1521-1586) was a versatile Italian scholar and man of letters, also known as a publisher. He was born in Rome, the son of Jacopo Sansovino, but moved soon in Venice and studied law at Padua and Bologna.
He is known for his 1581 work Venetia citta nobilissima et singolare, Descritta in XIIII. Libri, known briefly as Venezia Descritta. He also was a literary critic, writing in particular on Dante and Boccaccio, a historian, and a sculptor best known for Paletta Grande
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- Le antichità di Beroso Caldeo Sacerdote. Et d'altri scrittori, così Hebrei, come Greci et Latini, che trattano delle stesse materie (1583)
