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# Generated: 2026-09-02T00:25:44.302Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Leonardo Bruni was born around 1370 in Arezzo and became a humanist, historian, and statesman in early Renaissance Italy. He approached the past with a new architecture, dividing it into Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Modern era — the first person to write history through that tripartite lens. The dates he chose differ from today's conventions, but the framework stuck. By the time he died on 9 March 1444, he had earned recognition as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance, and some have called him the first modern historian outright.