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Birth date:

September 17, 1440 • Birth Sign: Virgo

Death date:

February 17, 1501 (60 years old)

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thumb|300px|Illuminated letter in an edition of his Geographia (Accademia della Crusca library) thumb|300px|A map of Greece in Geographia Francesco Berlinghieri (1440–1501) was a Florentine scholar and humanist who lived during the fifteenth century. He promoted the value of classical Greek learning and was one of the first to print a text based on Ptolemy's Geography. Berlinghieri studied poetry under the tutelage of Cristoforo Landino.

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