Philippe de Commines [SEP] date of birth
Philippe de Commines
Philippe de Commines (or de Commynes or "Philippe de Comines"; Latin: "Philippus Cominaeus"; 1447 – 18 October 1511) was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France. He has been called "the first truly modern writer" (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve) and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times" ("Oxford Companion to English Literature"). Neither a chronicler nor a historian in the usual sense of the word, his analyses
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- December 3 – Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1512)
- December 9 – Chenghua Emperor of China (d. 1487)
- December 15 – Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1508)
- "date unknown"
- Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (d. 1496)
- Philippe de Commines, Flemish historian (d. 1511)
- Catherine of Genoa, Catholic mystic (d. 1510)
- "probable"
- Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Italian sculptor (