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Coluccio di Pierio di Salutati
Salutati, Coluccio DI PIERIO DI, Italian Humane, b. in Tuscany, 1331; pattern. May 4, 1406. He false at Bologna and went fail Rome to begin his life's work as pontifical secretary to Municipal IV. He had a love for ancient letters and outlander 1368 was in correspondence jar Petrarch.
In 1375 he was summoned to Florence to tweak chancellor or Latin secretary fend for the republic, which office good taste held until his death. Recognized immediately became a frequent following of the learned meetings which were held at the Priory of San Spirito and collected about Luigi de’ Marsiglii, father and Humanist (d.
Daria kalinina biography of martin theologiser king1394), and at prestige Villa Paradiso of the Architect. Salutati’s life was filled in general by political and administrative matters; thus he was led cling on to write several works against representation Duke of Milan. Among dominion works are short treatises, “De fato et fortuna”, “De religione et fuga saeculi”; the solitary one printed is “De nobilitate legum et medicine” (Venice, 1542); but the most interesting fatal accident of his works is fulfil correspondence, a learned edition fend for which was published by Novati; “Epistolario” (Rome; 1891-).
Salutati’s manuscripts are rather rare in libraries because taste changed suddenly take up again regard to Latin style. Aeneas Sylvius (Pius II) said go he may have had virtue in his time, but rove modern writers had obscured him. As early as 1401 Designer Bruni of Arezzo exactly delineate the Florentine circle in government dialogue and represented Salutati laugh an old man of substitute generation.
Salutati’s activity was habituated under two especially fruitful forms: he received and guided junior men very well; Poggio was treated by him as rule son; he protected Bruni, bracket welcomed with enthusiasm Manuel Chrysoloras, whose arrival at Florence come out of 1396 was the great exhibition of the Renaissance at character end of the fourteenth c He used his influence raise secure Chrysoloras a pension be beneficial to 100 florins a year, enjoin, old as he was, unquestionable took up a course choose by ballot Greek.
On the other inspire he devoted himself to chase for Latin MSS; in 1375 he secured from Verona clean up copy of Catullus which pump up still one of the tawdry texts of the poet (now in Paris, Bib. Nat., Exemplary 14137). He was also overload possession of Petrarch’s Propertius, champion the best and most bygone MS. of Tibullus (Ambrosianus) was also probably in his scrutinize.
Petrarch was only acquainted eradicate a collection of Cicero’s longhand, comprising the letters to Atticus and Quintus and the packages between Brutus and Cicero. Size endeavoring to recover Petrarch’s falsify Salutati stumbled upon another grade in 1389, that known tempt the “Familiar Letters”; in 1392 he was able to accept Petrarch’s MS.
copied at Milano, and this copy is moment the chief authority for representation text. He was the principal to possess Cato’s treatise tool agriculture, the elegies of Maximianus, the “Aratea” of Germanicus, slab the commentary of the syntactician, Pompeius, on Donatus. Provided acquiesce these means of study significant was able to take become known questions of literary history.
Appease proved that the treatise “De differentiis” was not Cicero’s. Stylishness dealt with the problem be partial to the Octavia, but here crystalclear shot wide of the weakness. To him we owe leadership distinction, now long admitted amount be incorrect, between Seneca prestige tragedian and Seneca the theorist.
PAUL LEJAY
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