Bartolomeo Facio (c. 1400 – 1457) was an Italian historian, writer and
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Bartolomeo Facio (c. 1400 – 1457) was an Italian historian, writer and
humanistRenaissance Humanism was a European intellectual movement that was a crucial component of the Renaissance, beginning in Florence in the latter half of the 14th century. The humanist movement developed from the rediscovery by European scholars of Latin literary and Greek literary texts. Initially,...
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Facio was born into a wealthy family of
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. He studied in
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FlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence...
and
GenoaGenoa is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. The city has a population of about 610,000 and the urban area has a population of about 900,000...
and was a notary in
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and Genoa. In 1445 he moved to
NaplesNaples in Italy, is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture, architecture, music and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old...
at the service of King
Alfonso V of AragonAlfonso the Magnanimous was the King of Aragon , Valencia , Majorca, Sardinia and Corsica , and Sicily and Count of Barcelona from 1416 and King of Naples from 1442 until his death...
as secretary and official historian.
His works include
De rebus gestis ab Alphonso I Neapolitanorum rege libri X (1448-1445),
De bello veneto clodiano (published in 1568) and the moral treatises
De humanae vitae felicitate and
De excellentia ac praestantia hominis.
He died at Naples in 1457.