Bartolomeo Scala (1430–1497) was an Italian politician, author and historian. Born in
Colle Val d'Elsa, he became a protégé of
Cosimo and
Piero de' Medici, being appointed at the highest positions in the
Florentine Republic
The Republic of Florence (; Old Italian: ), known officially as the Florentine Republic, was a Italy in the Middle Ages, medieval and Italian Renaissance, early modern state that was centered on the Italian city-states, Italian city of Florence ...
(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. Scala died in 1497, and was buried in a chapel of
Annunziata.
Notes
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
onlinewith 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
online
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1430 births
1497 deaths
People from Colle di Val d'Elsa
15th-century Italian historians
Italian male non-fiction writers
Italian politicians