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Filippo Sassetti (1540-1588) was a traveller and merchant from a long-established Florentine mercantile family, who was born in Florence in 1540.
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About this person
Filippo Sassetti (1540-1588) was a traveller and merchant from a long-established Florentine mercantile family, who was born in Florence in 1540. Though his father had sold family interests and he had to commence as a clerk in a merchant business, Sassetti enrolled in 1568 at the University of Pisa and was imbued with a humanist education; he was proficient in botany, geography, astronomy and cosmography and was curious about philology and the classical languages.
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Historical Figures
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Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1540 to 1588 · aged 47
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