in Florence – 1497 in Rome) was an Italian humanist and political theorist who briefly flourished in the court of the Hungarian king, Matthias Corvinus, collaborating with Pietro Bono and Tinctoris.
[1] He is the author of the treatise Republics and Kingdoms Compared.
On March 7, 1483, the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, Brandolini delivered the annual encomium in honor of the "angelic doctor" for the Santa Maria sopra Minerva studium generale, the future Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum.
[2] Brandolini said the funerary oration over Matthias Corvinus.
Brandolini entered the Augustinian order late in life.