books.google.it - Biondo Flavio (1392-1463), humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance recovery of classical antiquity. While serving a number of the Renaissance popes, he inaugurated an extraordinary program of research into the history, institutions, cultural life, and physical remains of the...http://books.google.it/books/about/Italy_Illuminated_bks_1_4.html?hl=it&id=pPJPhOnv7lwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareItaly Illuminated: bks. 1-4
