Coluccio salutati biography books

Italian classical scholar and Renaissance humanist (1331–1406)

Coluccio Salutati (16 February 1331^[a] – 4 May 1406)^[1] was an ItalianRenaissance humanist and notary, and one of the most important political and cultural leaders of RenaissanceFlorence; 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.

Early career

Salutati was born in Stignano, a tiny commune near Buggiano (today's province of Pistoia, Tuscany). After studies in Bologna, where his father lived in exile after a Ghibelline coup in Buggiano, the family returned to Buggiano, which had become more securely part of the Republic of Florence.

There he worked as notary and pursued his literary studies, coming into contact with the Florentine humanists Boccaccio and Francesco Nelli. The refined and masterful classical Latin of his letters to