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133:, which he knew via a Roman edition of 1476. In the original the love affair between the German knight Eurialo and the beautiful Siennese noblewoman Lucrezia had a tragic ending, but Braccesi changed this to a happy ending and added comic and poetic episodes. He justified the changes in his dedication of the new work to
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were joint chancellors of the Otto di
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He was the eldest of four children born to Sandra and
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father's wealth". He became a notary in 1467 and was employed by the chancellery of the
Florentine Republic and Lordship, for whom he worked as a diplomat - between 1470 and 1471 he was in Naples and Rome with the Florentine ambassadors
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