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Filippo Buonaccorsi, called "Callimachus" (Latin: Philippus Callimachus Experiens, Bonacursius; ; 2 May 1437 – 1 November 1496) was an Italian

Italy

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humanist

Renaissance humanism

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and writer

Writer

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Life

Filippo Buonaccorsi was born in San Gimignano

San Gimignano

San Gimignano is a small walled medieval hill town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, north-central Italy. It is mainly famous for its medieval architecture, especially its towers, which may be seen from several kilometres outside the town....

, in Tuscany

Tuscany

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, in north-central Italy

Italy

. He first appeared in Venice

Venice

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and Rome

Rome

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, where he was secretary to Bishop Bartolomeo Roverelli. He moved to Rome in 1462 and became a member of the Rome Academy of Julius Pomponius Laetus

Julius Pomponius Laetus

Julius Pomponius Laetus , also known as Giulio Pomponio Leto, was an Italian humanist.-Background:Laetus was born at Teggiano, near Salerno, the illegitimate scion of the princely house of Sanseverino, the German historian Ludwig von Pastor reported...

. In 1468 he took part in a supposed assassination attempt upon Pope Paul II

Pope Paul II

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and fled to Poland

Poland

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. Homosexual verses (including one addressed to the then-Bishop of Segni

Segni

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, Lucio Fazini, were found in his papers.

In Poland he found work with the Bishop of Lwów, Gregory of Sanok

Gregory of Sanok

Gregory of Sanok left his home at age twelve and went to Kraków, the Polish capital, in which German was the language of the city's urban patriciate. Gregory thus travelled to Germany to learn the language....

.

Buonaccorsi later became tutor to the sons of Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon

Casimir IV Jagiellon

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and took part in diplomatic missions. In 1474 he was named royal secretary, in 1476 he served as ambassador to Constantinople

Constantinople

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, and in 1486 he became the King's representative in Venice. With the accession to the Polish throne of Buonaccorsi's former pupil as John I of Poland, his influence peaked.

In his writings Buonaccorsi argued for the strengthening of the king's power at the expense of the aristocracy. In Kraków

Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

he joined Conrad Celtis' Sodalitas Vistuliana.

Callimachus wrote poems and prose in Latin, and is best remembered for his biographies of Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki, Bishop Gregory of Sanok

Gregory of Sanok

, and King Władysław III of Poland.

His tomb in Kraków

Kraków

's Dominican Church was created by Veit Stoss

Veit Stoss

Veit Stoss was a leading Bavarian sculptor, mostly in wood, whose career covered the transition between the late Gothic and the Northern Renaissance. His style emphasized pathos and emotion, helped by his virtuoso carving of billowing drapery; it has been called "late Gothic Baroque"...

Life

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