Politian

[poh-lish-uhn]

noun

1. Angelo Poliziano, 1454–94, Italian classical scholar, teacher, and poet.

Politian

/ pəʊˈlɪʃən, pɒ- /

noun

1. Italian name Angelo Polliziano; original name Angelo Ambrogini. 1454–94, Florentine humanist and poet

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“Have to take serious look at appropriate individual targets, to bring greatest impact. Professors, DR’s, Politian’s, Judges, leftists in general.”

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Wow, Andy even used his father's passing for political advantage.. has any Politian stooped that low?

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He was a student at Paris in the ominous year of the first French invasion of Italy, in which the death of Pico della Mirandola and Politian came like a symbol of the death of the Italian Renaissance itself.

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For three years he lived in this regal home, meeting all the great and learned men of Italy: Politian, the poet and philosopher; Ficino, the head of the Platonic Academy; Pico della Mirandola, the prince and scholar, and many others.

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Politian was the tutor of the two Medici youths, Giovanni and Giulio, who afterwards became Leo X. and Clement VII.

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