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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 (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.
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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Scala, Bartolomeo 1430 births 1497 deaths People from Colle di Val d'Elsa 15th-century Italian historians Italian male non-fiction writers Italian politicians
He wrote an unfinished ''History of Florence'', as well as various essays and dialogues.Alison Brown, The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance FlorenceChap.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.
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*Alison BrownBartolomeo 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
online
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
online
{{DEFAULTSORT:Scala, Bartolomeo 1430 births 1497 deaths People from Colle di Val d'Elsa 15th-century Italian historians Italian male non-fiction writers Italian politicians