Frulovisi, Tito Livio (lived 1430s)

Italian humanist author from Ferrara. Educated in Venice by Guarino da Verona, his first writings were Latin comedies in the style of Plautus. He dedicated a Ciceronian dialogue, De Republica, to Leonello d'Este (c. 1435). Travelling to England in 1436, he became ‘poet and orator’ to Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester, and dedicated to Henry VI of England a life of his father, Vita Henrici Quinti (c. 1438). He soon returned to the Continent and, lacking patronage, changed career: he was in later life a doctor.