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Coluccio Salutati. Coluccio Salutati (16 February 1331 – 4 May 1406) was an Italian Renaissance humanist and notary, and one of the most important political and cultural leaders of Renaissance Florence; as chancellor of the Florentine Republic and its most prominent voice, he was effectively the permanent secretary of state in the generation before the rise of the powerful Medici family.
Apr 30, 2024 · Coluccio Salutati (born Feb. 16, 1331, Stignano, Tuscany—died May 4, 1406, Florence) was a Humanist and Florentine chancellor. In his youth in Bologna he took up the study of law but soon abandoned it as unsuited to his temperament. When his father died, leaving him an orphan, he overcame his repugnance and apprenticed himself to a notary.
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Humanism - Renaissance, Education, Philosophy: Like Petrarch and Boccaccio, Coluccio Salutati collected manuscripts, wrote on morality and politics, and carried on a voluminous correspondence. He was an aggressive and scientific philologist, instrumental in establishing principles of textual criticism that would become key elements of the humanistic method. He was a forceful apologist for the ...
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May 3, 2021 · Coluccio Salutati (b. 1331–d. 1406) is primarily known today as the scholar who ensured that the humanist movement established by Petrarch was passed on successfully to Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, and other scholars of the next generation. His approach to learning was more traditional than Petrarch’s, but from his base as chancellor ...
Coluccio Salutati. Lino Coluccio Salutati ( Stignano, 16 febbraio 1332 [N 1] – Firenze, 4 maggio 1406) è stato un politico, letterato e filosofo italiano, Cancelliere di Firenze dal 1375 al 1406. Figura culturale di riferimento dell' umanesimo a Firenze, in qualità di discepolo del Boccaccio e precettore di Poggio Bracciolini e Leonardo Bruni .
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Salutati, Coluccio1331–1406 Italian intellectual and politican. C oluccio Salutati was the leading humanist* of his generation. An official in the city of Florence for more than 30 years, he helped make the city the center of the humanist movement. Salutati was born in Stignano, a small village under the control of Florence.
Apr 8, 2015 · Coluccio Salutati was an outstanding figure in the generation that came between Petrarch and the full flowering—with Lorenzo Valla, Poggio Bracciolini, and others—of what has conventionally been known as Renaissance humanism.
