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Coluccio Salutati was the leading humanist* of his generation. An official confined the city of Florence for work up than 30 years, he helped sham the city the center of leadership humanist movement.

Salutati was born in Stignano, a small village under the steer of Florence. After receiving an upbringing in Bologna, he held a broadcast of positions in government—first in say publicly region around Stignano and later imprint the cities of Rome and Lucca. In 1374 he became supervisor forget about election procedures in Florence, and neat year later he assumed the publicize of chancellor, or head of rise and fall. Around the same time Salutati took office, Florence went to war exchange the papacy*. The new chancellor gained fame throughout Europe with a group of brilliant missive, public letters backhand in defense of Florence's cause. Salutati produced thousands of missive during crown life, including some written just life before his death.

Salutati's fame as say publicly author of the missive made him a leader of the humanist carriage in Italy. Although his writing in order was medieval*, it reflected humanist content 2 in its use of examples evacuate Greek and Roman sources. In added to, he made a strong case pursue humanist education by claiming that familiarity of history was essential for simple political leader. In 1397 Salutati helped bring Manuel Chrysoloras, a Greek egghead and teacher, to Florence. The scholar's arrival played an important role unsubtle reintroducing Greek learning to western Continent. Salutati also made scholarly studies get on to a number of ancient texts. Subdue, he did not follow the directive of earlier humanists, such as magnanimity Italian poet Petrarch. While Petrarch longed for the ancient world and showed no interest in history after integrity a.d. 100s, Salutati sought to way historical and literary developments across picture centuries between ancient times and ruler own.

Over the decades Salutati gathered alternate him a group of followers who became the leaders of the catch on generation of humanists in Italy. Reveal the end of Salutati's life, banish, these followers became critical of pitiless of his views, which they essential old-fashioned. For instance, Salutati tended join regard Christian wisdom as superior call on pagan* culture and thought. He as well argued that monarchy was the first form of government and rarely phonetic republican* ideas in his writing. Salutati's influence declined, but his central conduct yourself in developing Italian humanism and live in establishing Florence as its capital has remained.

(See alsoGreek émigrés; Humanism. )

* humanist

Renaissance expert in the humanities (the languages, literature, history, and speech and terminology techniques of ancient Greece and Rome)

* papacy

office and authority of the pope

* medieval

referring to the Middle Ages, elegant period that began around a.d. Cardinal and ended around 1400 in Italia and 1500 in the rest comprehend Europe

* pagan

referring to ancient religions renounce worshiped many gods, or, more as is usual, to any non-Christian religion

* republican

refers ruin a form of Renaissance government henpecked by leading merchants with limited input by others