Angelo Ambrogini, commonly known by his nickname, anglicized as Politian, Italian Poliziano, Latin Politianus (from his birthplace, Montepulciano, Latin Mons Politianus) (July 14, 1454 – September 24, 1494) was an Italian Renaissance classical scholar and poet, one of the revivers of Humanist Latin. He used his didactic poem Manto, written in the 1480s, as an introduction to his lectures on Virgil. Early life He was born at Montepulciano, in central Tuscany; he's known in literary annal… (More on Politian)