Piero Valeriano Bolzani born Giampietro Valeriano Bolzani, was an Italian

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 Renaissance humanist, favored by the Medici

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Bolzani was born in Belluno

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. His family was poor, and he did not learn to read until age 15. An uncle invited him to Venice

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, but he instead went into the service of a noble for support, and was tutored in various languages. He studied philosophy at the University of Padua

University of Padua

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 at age 23. He returned to Belluno later, but fled to Rome

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 in 1509 to escape the occupation of the city by the Holy Roman Empire

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 during the War of the League of Cambrai

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In Rome, he became acquainted with Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici, who would become Pope Leo X

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 in 1513.