Coluccio Salutati
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Coluccio Salutati 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
Coluccio Salutati
Poggio Bracciolini
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Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, usually referred to simply as Poggio Bracciolini, was an Italian scholar and an early Renaissance humanist. He is noted for rediscovering and recovering many classic
Coluccio Salutati
…important studies of history, tying Florence's origin not to the Roman Empire but to the Roman Republic. He promoted the work of younger humanists such as Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Niccolò de' Niccoli, Leonardo Bruni and Pier Paolo Vergerio. He also brought the Byzantine scholar Manuel Chrysoloras to Florence in 1397 to teach one…
Engraving of Bracciolini
Historia Florentina, 1478
Urb. lat. 224, 15th century
1597 engraving of Poggio Bracciolini