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Platina

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Piadena, near Cremona, Italy

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Bartolomeo Platina, originally named Sacchi (1421 – 1481) was an Italian Renaissance writer.
He first enlisted as a soldier, and was then appointed tutor to the sons of the Marquis Ludovico II Gonzaga. In 1457, he went to Florence, and studied under the Greek scholar Argyropulos. In 1462 he proceeded to Rome, probably in the suite of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga. After Pius II had reorganized the College of Abbreviators (1463), and increased the number to seventy, Platina, in May 1464, was elected a member.
Probably in the summer of 1465 Platina composed De honesta voluptate et valetudine ("On honourable pleasure and health"). This first printed cookbook, a monument of medieval cuisine in Renaissance intellectual trappings, left the press in 14 ...more

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	Platina's on Right Pleasure and Good Health: A Critical Abridgement and Translation of De Honesta Voluptate Et Valetudine by Platina, Mary Ella Milham 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Antiquity (Volume 1) (The I Tatti Renaissance Library) 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bartolomeo Platina: Lives of the Popes, Paul II: An Intermediate Reader: Latin Text with Running Vocabulary and Commentary by Platina, Thomas G Hendrickson it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE LIVES OF THE POPES FROM THE TIME OF OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST TO THE ACCESSION OF GREGORY VII: PLATINA'S LIBER PONTIFICALIS by Platina, Cristo Raul (Editor), William Benham (Translator) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De falso et vero bono (Edizione nazionale dei testi umanistici) by Platina, Raffaele Grazia Russo 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De honesta voluptate; The First Dated Cookery Book by Platina, Bartolomeo de Sacchi di Piadena 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1474 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lives of the Popes: From the Accession of Gregory VII, to the Death of Paul II 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lives of the Popes 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lives of the Popes From the Time of our Saviour Jesus Christ to the Accession of Gregory VII Volume 2 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lives of the Popes, : from the Time of Our Saviour Jesus Christ, to the Reign of Sixtus Iv. / Written Originally in Latine by Baptista Platina ... and Translated into 1685 Leather Bound 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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