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Girolamo Maggi

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Girolamo Maggi, born at Anghiari in Tuscany around 1523 though the exact year is not known, died in Constantinople on 27 March 1572. Known in Latin as Hieronymus Magius, he was an Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician and naturalist, and he studied at Bologna under Robortello. His works include a collection of poems on the Flemish wars, Cinque primi canti della guerra di Fiandra of 1551, and Della fortificatione delle città, a treatise by his friend Giacomo Fusto Castriotto that Maggi edited, annotated and published after Castriotto's death in 1564, as well as several works on philosophy.

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in Anghiari – 27 March 1572 in Constantinople), also known by his Latin name Hieronymus Magius, was an Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician, and naturalist who studied at Bologna
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    in Anghiari, 27 March 1572 in Constantinople), also known by his Latin name Hieronymus Magius, was an Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician, and naturalist who studied at Bologna
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    Maggi (c.1523, in Anghiari, 27 March 1572 in Constantinople), also known by his Latin name Hieronymus Magius, was an Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician, and naturalist who
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    Maggi (c.1523, in Anghiari, 27 March 1572 in Constantinople), also known by his Latin name Hieronymus Magius, was an Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician, and naturalist who
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    Magius, was an Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician, and naturalist who studied at Bologna under Francis
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