Filip Callimachus

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Filip Callimachus

Filip Callimachus or Callimach (Latin Philippus Callimachus Experiens, , born Filippo Buonaccorsi, Bonacursius; May 2, 1437 – November 1 1496) was an Italian

Italy

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humanist

Humanist

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and writer

Writer

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accorsi was born in San Gimignano

San Gimignano

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. He first appeared in Venice

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and Rome

Rome

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, where he was the secretary of bishop Bartolomeo Roverelli. He moved to Rome in 1462 and became a member of the Rome Academy of Julius Pomponius Laetus

Julius Pomponius Laetus

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Filip Callimachus or Callimach (Latin Philippus Callimachus Experiens, , born Filippo Buonaccorsi, Bonacursius; May 2, 1437 – November 1 1496) was an Italian

Italy

Humanist

Humanist may refer to:* a proponent of the group of ethical stances referred to as Humanism* a figure in the European intellectual movement known as Renaissance Humanism...
and writer

Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
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Buonaccorsi was born in San Gimignano

San Gimignano

Venice

Rome

Julius Pomponius Laetus

Julius Pomponius Laetus, also known as Giulio Pomponio Leto, was an Italy Humanism....
. He took part in the unsuccessful assassination of Pope Paul II

Pope Paul II

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in 1468 and fled to Poland

Poland

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. The homosexual verses (including one addressed to the then Bishop of Segni

Segni

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, Lucio Fazini), which were found in his papers earned him a reputation for sodomy

Sodomy

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. In Poland he found work with the bishop of Lemberg, Gregory of Sanok

Gregory of Sanok

Gregory of Sanok was a professor at the Cracow Academy, Archbishop of Lw?w and a pioneer of Polish Humanism....
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He was later teacher of the children of the Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon

Casimir IV Jagiellon

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and took part in diplomatic missions. In 1474 he was named royal secretary, in 1476 he served as ambassador to Constantinople

Constantinople

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, and in 1486 he became the king's representative in Venice. With the accession to the Polish throne of his former pupil as John I of Poland, his influence peaked. In his writings he argued for the reinforcement of the king's power at the expense of the aristocracy. In Cracow, he joined Conrad Celtis' Sodalitas Vistuliana. Callimachus wrote poems and prose in Latin, and is best remembered for his biographies of Bishop Zbigniew Olesnicki

Zbigniew Cardinal Olesnicki

Zbigniew Olesnicki or Zbigniew z Olesnicy , known in Latin as Sbigneus, was a high-ranking Roman Catholic clergyman and an influential Poland statesman and diplomat....
, bishop Gregory of Sanok, and King Wladyslaw III of Poland

Wladyslaw III of Poland

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His grave in the Dominican Church in Cracow was created by Veit Stoss

Veit Stoss

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