December is for Decembrio

Because the Italian humanists of the Renaissance are not remembered in any current calendars, I took it upon myself to offer the month of December to Pietro Candido Decembrio, one of the leading humanist scholars of the 1400s. It's only fair: he was rock-strong (Pietro), white-honest (Candido) and December (Decembrio) was not his middle name, but his su…