Coluccio Salutati
Italian classical scholar and Renaissance humanist (1331–1406)
🗓️ 4 May 1406
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 most prominent voice, he was effectively the permanent secretary of state in the generation before the rise of the powerful Medici family.
