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, central Italy. 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 ...

, he became a protégé of

Cosimo Cosimo is the Italian form of the Greek name ''Kosmas'' (latinised as ''Cosmas''). Cosimo may refer to: Characters * Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, hero of Italo Calvino's 1957 novel ''The Baron in the Trees'' Given name Medici family * Cosimo de ...

and Piero de' Medici, being appointed at the highest positions in the Florentine Republic (Chancellor, Secretary, Gonfaloniere and Priore). Bartolommeo Scala (1430-1497)

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.

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*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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{{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