Coluccio Salutati
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Published as a chapter in Il contributo italiano alla storia del pensiero, ed. Michele Ciliberto (Rome: Treccani, 2012), pp. 85-94.
Overview of the political thought of Coluccio Salutati and Leonardo Bruni.
Overview of the political thought of Coluccio Salutati and Leonardo Bruni.
The ancient philosophy of Stoicism found both admirers and critics during the Renaissance. Early humanists such as Petrarca and Salutati admired many aspects of Stoic philosophy, based on their reading of Cicero and Seneca. Seneca... more
Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406) and his one-time disciple Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444) were not university-trained philosophers but public officials of the Florentine city-state and men of letters inspired by the ideals and example of... more
La presente edizione, la prima giustificata da un’ipotesi complessiva e condotta con criteri scientifici, si basa sulla collazione completa dei testimoni, i cui rapporti sono discussi nella Premessa generale e nelle premesse alle singole... more
The myth of Orpheus, the ancient hero who could enchant nature with his music and tried to bring back his beloved Eurydice from Hades, consists of many different elements. There is no single original Orpheus myth, but the story gradually... more
About the question how to edit critical edition of state letters written by humanists. Presentation of Salutati's state and familiar letters to the members of the Malatesti Family. Critical editions of three letters of Salutati.
Los dos autores del círculo florentino cuya obra analizaremos, Marsilio Ficino y Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, frecuentan y asimilan las doctrinas atribuidas al sabio egipcio Hermes Trismegisto como las enseñanzas de uno de los... more
An updated overview of Dante fortune at Constance Council (1414-'17) through the study of the Italian attendees network, and the examination of documents and books circulating there, with some relevant findings and new attributions.
Coluccio Salutati arrivò ad allestire una biblioteca privata tra le più vaste dell’epoca. Berthold Louis Ullman fu il primo a proporre una ricostruzione della biblioteca salutatiana, arrivando a catalogare 111 manoscritti. Di questi uno... more
Augustine and the Humanists investigates the reception of Augustine’s De civitate Dei in Italian humanism during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Augustine and the Humanists fills a persistent lacuna by investigating the reception... more
... Page 15. As we now know from the researches of Anthony Grafton, Lisa Jardine and ... Boccaccio's words as follows: 'Dicis enim et consulis ut satis michi sit tuis ad literam utor verbis carmine forsan... more
The notion of florentina libertas was developed between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth centuries by the ‘humanist chancellors’, Coluccio Salutati and especially Leonardo Bruni. It is a liberty that has a... more
Sandro Botticelli responded to Italian vernacular literature, attending closely to the writings of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) and Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). He created ninety-two drawings on vellum to illustrate a deluxe edition of... more
Published in Coluccio Salutati e l’invenzione dell’Umanesimo, Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Firenze 29-31 ottobre 2008. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e letteratura, 2010 [published in 2011], 283-293. Examines Salutati's attitude... more
Questo articolo analizza l’uso delle fonti storiografiche latine all’interno degli scritti politici dei Cancellieri della Repubblica fiorentina. In particolare, esso esamina le manipolazioni degli Ab urbe condita in alcuni testi di... more
There is evidence of scribes able to write using different scripts: among them some are merely employing different degrees of the same handwriting, while others have the ability of using a wider repertoire of completely different scripts.... more
Bauch, Martin, Überhöhung, Zerrbild und Klischee: Ein Blick auf Johann von Böhmen und Karl IV. mit den Augen italienischer Beobachter des 14. und frühen 15. Jahrhunderts, in: Studia mediaevalia Bohemica 10/2 (2018), S. 163-197.
È ben noto quanto Sandro Botticelli abbia mostrato uno speciale interesse nei confronti della letteratura vernacolare italiana, soprattutto per autori come Dante Alighieri e Giovanni Boccaccio. Basti pensare ai novantadue disegni su... more
The paper reconstructs an event dating back to 1392, when the commune of Florence sent a letter from Coluccio Salutati’s chancellery to the city of Ancona asking for four notaries to be assigned to the office of notarii forenses... more
Coluccio Salutati ha espresso il proprio interesse profondo per i libri anche allestendo una biblioteca privata tra le più vaste dei suoi tempi: una raccolta che divenne un vero laboratorio di studi, scandito da un'architettura culturale... more
ENGLISH: The proemial chapter of the second book of Cecco d’Ascoli’s Acerba contains the famous dispute on the role played by fortune in human acts, in which the author questions Dante’s boetian-like thesis’ included in Inf. VII. On one... more
Coluccio Salutati (1332-1406) was the most sensible inheritor of Petrarch's doctrine in Florence. An example for this is the continuity from Petrarch's Vires illustres to Salutati's Famosi cives, that is, to illustrate paintings depicting... more
La traduzione della Lettera di Aristea a Filocrate che compare nel ms. Firenze BML 25 sin. 9, può essere attribuita a Iacopo Angeli da Scarperia per ragioni stilistiche, codicologiche e grafiche.
Este libro traza por primera vez en su conjunto el complejo panorama de la recepción de las obras de Sidonio Apolinar (430/431-c. 487 d. C.) desde su muerte hasta la primera mitad del Cinquecento, el momento crucial en que los textos de... more
This contribution describes specific aspects of the dispute on the concept of fate developed during the Renaissance, starting from the edition and commentary of an unpublished letter written by Vincenzio Borghini in 1570s. This text... more
The essay offers a description and a paleographical analysis of a manuscript (XIV century AD) containing the Epitoma rei militaris of Vegetius, that is preserved at the Archiginnasio Library in Bologna with the marking A. 146. The... more
The Florentine humanist Coluccio Salutati (1331/32–1406) published in 1396 the treatise De fato et fortuna (“On Fate and Fortune”) that combined medieval and classic scholarship with conceptual analysis and practical advice. The key... more
The historical figure of Marcus Iunius Brutus the Younger enjoyed a rich and complicated reception during the period of the Italian Renaissance. Dante famously placed Brutus, alongside Cassius and Judas, in the jaws of Lucifer. Petrarch,... more