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    Bartolomeo Sacchi (Italian: [ˌbartɔlɔˈmɛɔ ˈsakki]; 1421 – 21 September 1481), known as il Platina (Italian: [il ˈplatina]) after his birthplace of Piadena...
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    coffer ceiling. Platina is pointing to an inscription, written by himself, which boasts Sixtus' deeds. "Sixtus IV appoints Bartolomeo Platina Prefect of the...
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  • settlers Platina, California, an unincorporated community in the United States Piadena ("Platina" in Latin), an Italian village Bartolomeo Platina, a 15th-century...
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    conditions, especially illnesses relating to digestion and the blood. Bartolomeo Platina recommended taking beetroot with garlic to nullify the effects of...
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    voluptate) was the first cookbook ever printed. Written c. 1465 by Bartolomeo Platina, it first appeared between 1470 and 1475 in Rome, and in 1475 in Venice...
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    early 1900s that the shorter maturation Asiago Pressato was produced. Bartolomeo Platina wrote "goat's milk is excellent, ewe's milk is next, with cow's milk...
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  • illustrator and engraver Bartolomeo Platina (1421–1481), Italian teacher, scholar, author, and member of the College of Abbreviators Bartolomeo Prignano (1318–1389)...
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    and believed. Joan was used as an exemplum in Dominican preaching. Bartolomeo Platina, the scholar who was prefect of the Vatican Library, wrote his Vitæ...
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    ædificatoria by Leone Battista Alberti (1404–1472) 1471. Contra amores by Bartolomeo Platina (1421–1481) 1479. De inventione dialectica by Rodolphus Agricola (1444–1485)...
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    Library and author of the lives of Popes Bartolomeo Platina, he died in the 63rd year of his life, see Bartolomeo Platina: The lives of the Popes. London: 1888...
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