Donato Giannotti (27 November 1492 – December 1573) was an Italian political writer and playwright. He was one of the leaders of the short-lived Florentine Republic of 1527. He subsequently wrote theoretical works on

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. After the return of the Medicis, he lived in exile, dying in Rome. He was supported by Cardinal Niccolò Ridolfi. He became acquainted with

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at the time he worked in the Signoria in Florence. According to

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, Giannotti approached Michelangelo with the commission from Ridolfi, for the '' Brutus''.

Works

*''Della repubblica fiorentina'' (1531) *''Dialogi de Republica Venetorum ''(1540) *''Il Vecchio amoroso'', play *''Milesia in terzine'', play *''Lettere a Piero Vettori '' *''Dialoghi de' Giorni che Dante Consumo nel Cercare l'Inferno e'l Purgatorio ''(1546)

References

Bibliography

*R. Starn (ed.), ''Donato Giannotti and His Epistolae'' (1968) *D. J. Gordon, ''Gianotti, Michelangelo and the cult of Brutus'', in: ''F. Saxl 1890-1984'' * Donato Giannotti, ''Lettere a Piero Vettori'', pubblicate sopra gli originali del British Museum da R. Ridolfi e C. Roth..., Florence, Vallecchi ed., 1932. * Alois Riklin, ''Division of Power avant la lettre: Donato Giannotti (1534)'', in: ''History of Political Thought'' Vol. XXIX, 2/2008, S. 257-272.

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