Agostino Dati

Agostino Dati, also known as Augustinus Datus or Dathus (1420 – 6 April 1478) was a fifteenth-century orator, historian and philosopher best known for his grammatical textbook Elegantiolae. In 1489 Erasmus praised Dati as one of the Italian masters of eloquence.^[1]

^ Egmont Lee (2003). "Agostino Dati of Siena". In Peter Gerard Bietenholz; Thomas Brian Deutscher (eds.). Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Vol. 1–3, A–Z. University of Toronto Press. p. 378. ISBN 978-0-8020-8577-1. Retrieved 9 May 2013.

[BietenholzDeutscher2003-1] Egmont Lee (2003). "Agostino Dati of Siena". In Peter Gerard Bietenholz; Thomas Brian Deutscher (eds.). Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Vol. 1–3, A–Z. University of Toronto Press. p. 378. ISBN 978-0-8020-8577-1. Retrieved 9 May 2013.

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