Lazarus Buonamici (1479–1552) was an Italian

Italy

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 Renaissance humanist

Renaissance humanism

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Buonamici was born in Bassano

Bassano

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, and studied at the University of Padua

University of Padua

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. He tutored for the Campeggi family for a time, and later was professor of Belles Lettres at the Sapienza University of Rome. He fled Rome during the sack of 1527

Sack of Rome (1527)

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, escaping to Padua but losing all his property. He became a professor at Padua, where his lectures acquired for him a great reputation, though he did not commit the results of his scholarship to print, and only a few letters and poems of his survive, published posthumously in 1572.