About Bartolomeo Scala
Lived 1430 – 1497 (aged 66–67). Bartolomeo Scala was a historian and politician.
Bartolomeo Scala (1430–1497) was an Italian politician, author and historian. Born in Colle di 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. He was a member of the Accademia Neoplatonica. Scala died in 1497, and was buried in a chapel of Annunziata.
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Italian politician and historian (1430-1497)
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