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	'''Giannozzo Manetti''' (1396 -1459) was an Italian politician and diplomat from [[Florence]], who was also a [[Renaissance humanism\|humanist scholar]] of the early [[Italian Renaissance]].		'''Giannozzo Manetti''' ([[1396 AD\|1396]] -[[1459 AD\|1459]]) was an Italian politician and diplomat from [[Florence]], who was also a [[Renaissance humanism\|humanist scholar]] of the early [[Italian Renaissance]].

	Manetti was the son of a wealthy merchant. His public career began in 1429. He participated in municipal government as a member of the advisory council, as an ambassador, and in various gubernatorial positions in the city. Manetti was an eyewitness of the dedication of [[Santa Maria del Fiore]] on 25 March 1436, of which he left a record, the ''Oratio de Secularibus et Pontificalibus Pompis in Consecratione Basilicae Florentinae''. His views on Florentine relations with [[Venice]] proved unpopular among the ruling class, and he put himself into voluntary exile, spending the last years of his life in [[Naples]].<sup>[1]</sup>		Manetti was the son of a wealthy merchant. His public career began in 1429. He participated in municipal government as a member of the advisory council, as an ambassador, and in various gubernatorial positions in the city. Manetti was an eyewitness of the dedication of [[Santa Maria del Fiore]] on 25 March 1436, of which he left a record, the ''Oratio de Secularibus et Pontificalibus Pompis in Consecratione Basilicae Florentinae''. His views on Florentine relations with [[Venice]] proved unpopular among the ruling class, and he put himself into voluntary exile, spending the last years of his life in [[Naples]].<sup>[1]</sup>

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'''Giannozzo Manetti''' (1396 -1459) was an Italian politician and diplomat from [[Florence]], who was also a [[Renaissance humanism|humanist scholar]] of the early [[Italian Renaissance]].

Manetti was the son of a wealthy merchant. His public career began in 1429. He participated in municipal government as a member of the advisory council, as an ambassador, and in various gubernatorial positions in the city. Manetti was an eyewitness of the dedication of [[Santa Maria del Fiore]] on 25 March 1436, of which he left a record, the ''Oratio de Secularibus et Pontificalibus Pompis in Consecratione Basilicae Florentinae''. His views on Florentine relations with [[Venice]] proved unpopular among the ruling class, and he put himself into voluntary exile, spending the last years of his life in [[Naples]].<sup>[1]</sup>

He was a [[Latin]]ist and a translator of [[Greek language|Greek]]; he also studied [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] so that he could read the [[Hebrew Bible]] and the [[rabbi]]nic commentaries. These readings convinced him that the Bible needed translation anew from the early manuscripts. After his death, Manetti's sizable library found its way into the [[Biblioteca Vaticana]].

As an author, Manetti's style was an imitation of [[Cicero]]. He is now remembered principally as the author of ''De dignitate et excellentia hominis libri IV'' ("On the Dignity and Excellence of Man in Four Books"), completed in manuscript in 1452 or 1453. It was a response to [[Pope Innocent III|Pope Innocent III's]] ''[[De miseria humane conditionis]]''. His ''Pistoiese History'', composed in 1446–47, was the first contemporary critical response to [[Leonardo Bruni]]'s innovative and monumental ''History of the Florentine People''. He also wrote a commentary on [[Aristotle]] and [[biographies]] of [[Dante Alighieri]], [[Giovanni Boccaccio]], [[Pope Nicholas V]], [[Francesco Petrarca]], [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]], and [[Socrates]].

Manetti's circle of humanist intellectuals included [[Carlo Marsuppini]], [[Poggio Bracciolini]], [[Leonardo Bruni]], [[Francesco Filelfo]], [[Niccolò Niccoli]], [[Palla Strozzi]], and [[Lorenzo Valla]].

==Bibliography==
* ''Apologeticus'', as ''A Translator's Defense'' ed. Myron McShane, Translated into English by Mark Young. Harvard University Press. 2015. [A defense of the study of Hebrew] {{ISBN|978-0674088658}}
* ''Biographical Writings'', ed. Stefano U. Baldassarri and Rolf Bagemihl, I Tatti Renaissance Library, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2003. {{ISBN|978-0674011342}}.
* ''De dignitate et excellentia hominis'', ed. Elizabeth R. Leonard, Padua, Editrice Antenore, 1974. {{ISBN|978-8884551436}}.
* ''De terremotu'', ed. Daniela Pagliara, Florence, SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2012. {{ISBN|978-88-8450-492-0}}.
* ''De vita ac gestis Nicolai quinti summi pontificis'', ed. Anna Modigliani, Fonti per la storia d'Italia, Rome, Istituto storico italiano per il Medio Evo, 2005. {{ISBN|8889190108}}.
* ''Historia Pistoriensis'', critical edition by Stefano Ugo Baldassarri and Benedetta Aldi, historical commentary by William J. Connell, Edizione Nazionale dei Testi della Storiografia Umanistica, Florence, SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011. {{ISBN|978-8884504425}}.
* ''On the Dignity of Man'', in ''Two Views of Man: Pope Innocent III - On the Misery of Man ; Giannozzo Manetti - On the Dignity of Man'', ed. and trans. Bernard Murchland, New York, Ungar, [1966].
* ''Un episodio del proto-humanismo español: tres opúsculos de Nuño de Guzmán y Giannozzo Manetti'', ed. Jeremy N. H. Lawrence, Salamanca, Biblioteca española del Siglo XV-Diputaciòn de Salamanca, 1989.
* ''Vita Socratis et Senecae'', ed. Alfonso De Petris, Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1979.
* ''On Human Worth and Excellence'', edited by Brian P. Copenhaver, Harvard University Press, 2018 (The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 85)

==References==
* 1. Martines, Lauro (2011). ''The Social World of the Florentine Humanists, 1390-1460''. University of Toronto Press. p. 7.
*Baldassarri, Stefano Ugo (2008). ''Dignitas et excellentia hominis : atti del Convegno internazionale di studi su Giannozzo Manetti : Georgetown University-Kent State University, Fiesole-Firenze, 18-20 giugno 2007'', Florence: Le Lettere. ISBN 8860871220.
*Connell, William J. (2002). "Il cittadino umanista come ufficiale nel territorio : una rilettura di Giannozzo Manetti," in Andrea Zorzi and William J. Connell, eds., ''Lo stato territoriale fiorentino (secoli XIV-XV) : ricerche, linguaggi, confronti : atti del seminario internazionale di studi, San Miniato, 7-8 giugno 1996'', Pisa: Pacini, pp. 359–383.
*Eck, Caroline (1998). "Giannozzo Manetti on Architecture: The ''Oratio de Secularibus et Pontificalibus Pompis in Consecratione Basilicae Florentinae'' of 1436". ''Renaissance Studies'', '''12''':4, pp. 449–475.
*Grout, Donald Jay, and Palisca, Claude V. (2001). ''A History of Western Music'', 6th ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. ISBN 0-393-97527-4.
*Smith, Christine and Joseph F. O'Connor (2006). ''Building the kingdom : Giannozzo Manetti on the material and spiritual edifice'', Tempe: ACMRS. ISBN 9782503525815.

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080617203250/http://www.humanistictexts.org/manetti.htm Manetti] at Humanistic Texts
*[http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it:6336/dynaweb/bibit/autori/m/manetti_g/ Selected works]{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at Biblioteca Italiana

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[[Category:15th-century people of the Republic of Florence]]
[[Category:Italian Renaissance writers]]
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[[Category:Dante Alighieri]]
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	==Bibliography==		==Bibliography==
	* ''Apologeticus'', as ''A Translator's Defense'' ed. Myron McShane, Translated into English by Mark Young. Harvard University Press. 2015. [A defense of the study of Hebrew] {{ISBN\|978-0674088658}}		* ''Apologeticus'', as ''A Translator's Defense'' ed. Myron McShane, Translated into English by Mark Young. Harvard University Press. 2015. [A defense of the study of Hebrew] ISBN 978-0674088658
	* ''Biographical Writings'', ed. Stefano U. Baldassarri and Rolf Bagemihl, I Tatti Renaissance Library, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2003. {{ISBN\|978-0674011342}}.		* ''Biographical Writings'', ed. Stefano U. Baldassarri and Rolf Bagemihl, I Tatti Renaissance Library, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0674011342.
	* ''De dignitate et excellentia hominis'', ed. Elizabeth R. Leonard, Padua, Editrice Antenore, 1974. {{ISBN\|978-8884551436}}.		* ''De dignitate et excellentia hominis'', ed. Elizabeth R. Leonard, Padua, Editrice Antenore, 1974. ISBN 978-8884551436.
	* ''De terremotu'', ed. Daniela Pagliara, Florence, SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2012. {{ISBN\|978-88-8450-492-0}}.		* ''De terremotu'', ed. Daniela Pagliara, Florence, SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2012. ISBN 978-88-8450-492-0.
	* ''De vita ac gestis Nicolai quinti summi pontificis'', ed. Anna Modigliani, Fonti per la storia d'Italia, Rome, Istituto storico italiano per il Medio Evo, 2005. {{ISBN\|8889190108}}.		* ''De vita ac gestis Nicolai quinti summi pontificis'', ed. Anna Modigliani, Fonti per la storia d'Italia, Rome, Istituto storico italiano per il Medio Evo, 2005. ISBN 8889190108.
	* ''Historia Pistoriensis'', critical edition by Stefano Ugo Baldassarri and Benedetta Aldi, historical commentary by William J. Connell, Edizione Nazionale dei Testi della Storiografia Umanistica, Florence, SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011. {{ISBN\|978-8884504425}}.		* ''Historia Pistoriensis'', critical edition by Stefano Ugo Baldassarri and Benedetta Aldi, historical commentary by William J. Connell, Edizione Nazionale dei Testi della Storiografia Umanistica, Florence, SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011. ISBN 978-8884504425.
	* ''On the Dignity of Man'', in ''Two Views of Man: Pope Innocent III - On the Misery of Man ; Giannozzo Manetti - On the Dignity of Man'', ed. and trans. Bernard Murchland, New York, Ungar, [1966].		* ''On the Dignity of Man'', in ''Two Views of Man: Pope Innocent III - On the Misery of Man ; Giannozzo Manetti - On the Dignity of Man'', ed. and trans. Bernard Murchland, New York, Ungar, [1966].
	* ''Un episodio del proto-humanismo español: tres opúsculos de Nuño de Guzmán y Giannozzo Manetti'', ed. Jeremy N. H. Lawrence, Salamanca, Biblioteca española del Siglo XV-Diputaciòn de Salamanca, 1989.		* ''Un episodio del proto-humanismo español: tres opúsculos de Nuño de Guzmán y Giannozzo Manetti'', ed. Jeremy N. H. Lawrence, Salamanca, Biblioteca española del Siglo XV-Diputaciòn de Salamanca, 1989.
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	==External links==		==External links==
	*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080617203250/http://www.humanistictexts.org/manetti.htm Manetti] at Humanistic Texts		*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080617203250/http://www.humanistictexts.org/manetti.htm Manetti] at Humanistic Texts
	*[http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it:6336/dynaweb/bibit/autori/m/manetti_g/ Selected works]{{dead link\|date=October 2017 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }} at Biblioteca Italiana

	{{DEFAULTSORT:Manetti, Giannozzo}}		{{DEFAULTSORT:Manetti, Giannozzo}}