Lapo da Castiglionchio the Elder (c. 1316 – 1381) was born in

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. He was a correspondent and friend of

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from 1350. A Tuscan noble of reduced fortune, Lapo da Castiglionchio the Elder was most known for being one of the leaders in the events leading up to the class revolt in Florence, the

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, in 1378. He was a legal professional and preserved the legal rights of certain notable families. Because of his defense for the special privileges of the

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his family estate was burned during the uprisings of that revolt. He was eventually exiled from the

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area. His descendant, Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger (c. 1405 – 1438), a pupil of the humanist

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, wrote the scurrilous deadpan satiric dialogue on the papal curia, ''De curiae commodis'' (1438), "On the benefits of the Curia".The work in Latin with an English translation is the subject of Christopher S. Celenza
''Renaissance humanism and the Papal Curia''

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