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Giovanni Pontano
Bust of Pontano by Adriano Fiorentino, in the Museo di Sant'Agostino di Genova [it]
Born1426 or 1429
Cerreto di Spoleto, Papal States (now in Umbria)
Died1503
Naples, Kingdom of Naples
NationalitySpoleto
Other names
  • Giovanni Gioviano Pontano
  • Latin: Ioannes Iovianus Pontanus
Occupation(s)poet, humanist
Known forAccademia Pontaniana, poetry

Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503), later known as Giovanni Gioviano (Latin: Ioannes Iovianus Pontanus), was a humanist and poet from Cerreto di Spoleto, in central Italy. He was the leading figure of the Accademia Pontaniana after the death of Antonio Beccadelli in 1471, and the academy took his name.

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forces near Rome. In the Accademia Pontaniana that collected around Giovanni Pontano (Jovianus Pontanus), he took the classicizing nom de plume of Actius...

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manuscript to use in the Vivian Bible. In 1448, the Italian humanist Giovanni Pontano studied and collected the manuscript. At that time, as the manuscript...

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