I'm just going to post what little I did find. I am actually a bit shocked to discover that there is so little reference to him, and that I could not find any of his work on the internet.
While the spirit of the Renaissance ultimately took many forms, it was expressed earliest by the intellectual movement called Humanism. Humanism was initiated by secular men of letters rather than by the scholar-clerics who had dominated medieval intellectual life and had developed the Scholastic philosophy. Humanism began and achieved fruition first in Italy. Its predecessors were men like Dante and Petrarch, and its chief protagonists included Gianozzo Manetti, Leonardo Bruni, Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Lorenzo Valla, and Coluccio Salutati. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 provided Humanism with a major boost, for many eastern scholars fled to Italy, bringing with them important books and manuscripts and a tradition of Greek scholarship.
Gianozzo Manetti on the dignity of man,1452
CNUM 1188: Gianozzo Manetti. Oracio\*'n. BL Egerton 1868, ff. 146r-189v
Jeremy LAWRANCE, Un episodio del proto-humanismo espa�ol. Tres op�sculos de Nu�o Guzm�n y Gianozzo Manetti.
Salamanca: Diputaci�n de Salamanca, 1989. 322 p�gs. in-4º.,
Along with this classical revival, Oriental studies now assumed considerable proportions. The controversial writings of the great Florentine statesman and scholar, Giannozzo Manetti (d. 1459) against the Jews afford an early instance of a complete mastery of their language and science. His son Agnolo was from his childhood instructed in Latin, Greek and Hebrew. The father, at the bidding of Nicholas V, translated the whole Bible afresh, as the philologists of the time insisted on giving up the 'Vulgata.'
The earliest manuscript described in the catalog dates from the 12th century, a copy of Priscian's Latin grammar; the latest volumes are from the 19th century (mostly Spanish poetry). The small but impressive collection of Latin classics includes, in addition to Priscian, manuscripts of Propertius, Statius, Juvenal, Persius, Martial, Pliny, Cicero, Quintilian, Aristotle, and Seneca; humanist manuscripts include works by Pomponio Leto, George of Trebizond, Pietro Decembrio, Poggio Bracciolini, Leonardo Bruni, Gianozzo Manetti, and others.
http://www.rre.casalini.com/1998/AB-98-34.html
-Gianozzo Manetti: _Vida de Socrates_, Introduccion, texto latino y traduccion por Juan Bossini, Madrid: Ediciones Clasicas, 1994 (el copyright es de 1994, pero el pie de imprenta es de 1995). La introduccion es una breve semblanza bio-bibliografica de Manetti. No habla de su fortuna en Espanna ni nada parecido. Posteriormente hace un analisis retorico de la _Vita_. El texto latino esta basado en la edicion de De Petris, con la correccion de alguna laguna, aunque el editor no dice de donde saca los datos para rellenar dicha laguna.
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