Coluccio Salutati

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Coluccio Salutati was a leading early Italian humanist and chancellor of Florence whose scholarship and political influence helped lay the foundations of Renaissance humanism.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Italian humanist
Renaissance humanist
chancellor
humanist
scholar
statesman
birthDate 1331
birthPlace Stignano
Tuscany
causeOfDeath natural causes
countryOfCitizenship Republic of Florence
dateOfAssumingOffice 1375
dateOfLeavingOffice 1406
deathDate 1406
educatedAt University of Bologna
employer Republic of Florence
era Early Renaissance
Trecento
familyName Salutati
fieldOfWork classical philology
political thought
rhetoric
genre epistolary literature
political treatise
givenName Coluccio
influenced Italian Renaissance humanism
Leonardo Bruni
Poggio Bracciolini
influencedBy Cicero
Petrarch
knownFor helping lay the foundations of Renaissance humanism
revival of classical Latin style in Florence
using humanist rhetoric in Florentine politics
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
Latin
movement Italian humanism
Renaissance humanism
name Coluccio Salutati
notableWork De seculo et religione
De tyranno
Letters
occupation chancellor of Florence
positionHeld Chancellor of the Florentine Republic
religion Catholicism
workLocation Florence


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