Giannozzo Manetti

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Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) was a Florentine politician and diplomat, and also a significant humanist scholar of the early Italian Renaissance.

He was a Latinist, and a translator of works in Greek; he also studied Hebrew. He is now remembered principally as the author of De dignitate et excellentia hominis libri IV (On the Dignity and Excellence of Man), completed in manuscript in 1452/3.