Donato Acciaiuoli

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Donato Acciaiuoli (Florence 1429 - Milan 1478), was an Italian scholar.

He was born at Florence. He was famous for his learning, especially in Greek and mathematics, and for his services to his native state.

Having previously been entrusted with several important embassies, he became Gonfalonier of Florence in 1473. He died at Milan in 1478, when on his way to Paris to ask the aid of Louis XI on behalf of the Florentines against Pope Sixtus IV. His body was taken back to Florence, and buried in the church of the Carthusians at the public expense, and his daughters were portioned by his fellow-citizens, the fortune he left being, owing to his probity and disinterestedness, very small.

He wrote a Latin translation of some of Plutarch's Lives (Florence, 1478); Commentaries on Aristotle's Ethics and Politics; and the lives of Hannibal, Scipio and Charlemagne. In the work on Aristotle he had the co-operation of his master John Argyropulus.

[edit] See also

• Zanobi Acciaiuoli, Librarian of the Vatican, of the same family

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.