Angelo Ambrogini (14 July 1454 24 September 1494), commonly known by his nickname

Poliziano (Italian: [polittsjano]; anglicized as Politian; Latin: Politianus),[1] was an Italian classical
scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance. His scholarship was instrumental in the divergence
of Renaissance (or Humanist) Latin from medieval norms[2][3] and for developments in philology.[4]
His nickname, Poliziano, by which he is chiefly identified to the present day, was derived from the
Latin name of his birthplace, Montepulciano (Mons Politianus).
Poliziano's works include translations of passages from Homer's Iliad, an edition of the poetry of
Catullus and commentaries on classical authors and literature. It was his classical scholarship that
brought him the attention of the wealthy and powerful Medici family that ruled Florence. He served
the Medici as a tutor to their children, and later as a close friend and political confidante. His later
poetry, including La Giostra, glorified his patrons.
He used his didactic poem Manto, written in the 1480s, as an introduction to his lectures on Virgil.