Leonardo Bruni
Italian humanist historian (c. 1370-1444) · Writers · Lived 1369 to 1444 · aged 75
Leonardo Bruni is read about 104 times a day, in 44 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 September 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?He invented the way we still slice history into three acts: ancient, medieval, modern. Before Bruni, no one thought to mark the centuries that way.
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Antonio sinibaldi (cop.) e francesco di antonio del chierico (ill.), vite (e opere scelte) di petrarca e dante di leonardo bruni, firenze 1476 (bnf) 02_e_francesco_di_antonio_del_chierico_(ill.)%2C_vite_di_petrarca_e_dante_di_l._bruni%2C_firenze_1476_(bnf)%2C_coperta_con_smalti_di_antonio_del_pollaiolo_01.jpg?width=1200)
Antonio sinibaldi (cop.) e francesco di antonio del chierico (ill.), vite di petrarca e dante di l. bruni, firenze 1476 (bnf), coperta con smalti di antonio del pollaiolo 01_e_francesco_di_antonio_del_chierico_(ill.)%2C_vite_di_petrarca_e_dante_di_l._bruni%2C_firenze_1476_(bnf)%2C_coperta_con_smalti_di_antonio_del_pollaiolo_02.jpg?width=1200)
Antonio sinibaldi (cop.) e francesco di antonio del chierico (ill.), vite di petrarca e dante di l. bruni, firenze 1476 (bnf), coperta con smalti di antonio del pollaiolo 02
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Bruni1About this person
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.
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