Angelo Ambrogini, best known as Poliziano (July 14, 1454 – September 24, 1494) was a Florentine 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 Known in literary annals as Angelo Poliziano or Politianus from his birthplace, he was born at Montepulciano, in central Tuscany. His father, Benedetto, a jurist of good family and distinguished ability, was murdered b… (More on Politian)