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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 ...
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.
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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.
Coluccio Salutati. 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.
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.
SALUTATI, COLUCCIO. Chancellor of Florence, chiefly responsible for forming the Florentine humanistic circle; b. Stignano, Italy, Feb. 16, 1331; d. Florence, May 4, 1406. His Guelf father fled to Bologna after a Ghibelline victory. There Salutati was educated as a notary.
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.
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