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Crinitus

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Pietro Crinito(22 May 1474 – 5 July 1507), known asCrinitus,orPietro Del Riccio Baldi(derived from Riccio, 'curly', translated into Latin ascrinitus), was aFlorentinehumanistscholar andpoetwho was a disciple ofPoliziano.

Collatio Litterae Florentinae,15th-century manuscript.Bayerische Staatsbibliothek,München.

He is best known for his 1504commonplace book,De honesta disciplina.This has been taken to be a source for the work ofNostradamus.

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