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Cino da Pistoia

(Encyclopedia)Cino da Pistoia chēˈnō dä pēstôˈyä [key], 1270–1337?, Italian jurist and poet, whose full name was Guittoncino dei Sinibaldi, or Sighibuldi. A friend of Dante and Petrarch, he wrote treatise...

Gentile da Fabriano

(Encyclopedia)Gentile da Fabriano jāntēˈlā [key], c.1370–1427, Italian painter, one of the outstanding exponents of the elegant international Gothic style. In 1409 he worked in the Doge's Palace, Venice, pai...

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