Brandolini, Aurelio Lippo : Born: 1454, Died: 1497

Aurelio Lippo Brandolini was an Italian poet and teacher of rhetoric who briefly attended the court of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary. While in Budapest, he wrote the most interesting of his humanistic prose works, a political treatise, written in the form of a dialogue, in which he made analytical and original comparisons between kingdoms and republics to assert that the former constituted the better form of government. Because of its anti-republican arguments, this dialogue has been considered one of the most important works of Renaissance political thought.