Federigo Ubaldini (1610 - 1657) was an Italian

Dante Dante Alighieri (; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian Italian poetry, poet, writer, and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called ...

and

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scholar, born in

Siena Siena ( , ; traditionally spelled Sienna in English; ) is a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, and the capital of the province of Siena. It is the twelfth most populated city in the region by number of inhabitants, with a population of 52,991 ...

. He was secretary to Cardinal Francesco Barberini, and later secretary to the

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in Rome. He published a biography of

Angelo Colocci Angelo Colocci (; 14671549) was a papal secretary of Pope Leo X, a romance Philology, philologist, and a Renaissance humanist. He assembled a large collection of antiquities in his villa beside the Aqua Virgo. Life Colocci was born in 1467 at I ...

and various notes on the Renaissance poets. He also created annotations about the Divine Comedy.Treccani Encyclopedia
di Giuseppe Izzi, Enciclopedia Dantesca (1970). In 1642, Federigo edited a publication of the work ''Il Tesoro'' by

Brunetto Latini Brunetto Latini (who signed his name ''Burnectus Latinus'' in Latin and ''Burnecto Latino'' in Italian; –1294) was an Italian philosopher, scholar, notary, politician and statesman. He was a teacher and friend of Dante Alighieri. Life Brunetto ...

(c. 1220–1294), a guardian and teacher of Dante.

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