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Rucellai, Giovanni (1475–1525)| Italian poet of a patrician Florentine family. He wrote two tragedies in the style of the Greek dramatist Euripides, Rosamunda (1515) and Oreste (1525), and also a didactic poem on bees, Le Api (1539) (edited by his brother Palla), based on the fourth book of the Roman poet Virgil's Georgics. |
| He was a grandson of Bernardo di Giovanni Rucellai. A cleric, he was frequently employed as a diplomat by the Medici popes. |
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