Bartolomeo Scala (1430–1497) was an Italian politician, author and historian. Born in

Colle Val d'Elsa Colle di Val d'Elsa or Colle Val d'Elsa is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Siena, Tuscany. It has a population of c. 21,600 . Its name means "Hill of Elsa Valley", where Elsa is the name of the river which crosses it and Valdelsa the nam ...

, he became a protégé of Cosimo and Piero de' Medici, being appointed at the highest positions in the

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(Chancellor, Secretary, Gonfaloniere and Priore). He wrote an unfinished ''History of Florence'', as well as various essays and dialogues.Alison Brown, The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence
Chap.2, Medicean Florence: Marsilio Ficino and Bartolomeo Scala
2010 He was a member of the

Accademia Neoplatonica The Platonic Academy of Florence (Italian: ''Accademia Platonica di Firenze'') was an informal discussion group which formed around Marsilio Ficino in the Florentine Renaissance of the fifteenth century. History In about 1462 Cosimo de' Medici ...

. Scala died in 1497, and was buried in a chapel of Annunziata.

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References

*Alison Brown
''Bartolomeo Scala, 1430-1497, Chancellor of Florence: The Humanist As Bureaucrat''
Princeton, 1979. *G.C. Garfagnini "Tra politica, clientele e senso dello stato: Bartolomeo Scala" , Annali del Dipartimento di Filosofia (Nuova Serie), XV (2009), pp. 109–130. Availabl
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with an English summary. *G.C. Garfagnini "Bartolomeo Scala e la difesa dello stato «nuovo»" in Humanistica, "Per Cesare Vasoli", Olschki, Firenze 2003, pp. 71–86. Availabl
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