Scholars of Italian literature tend to depict Florentine chancellor and humanist Coluccio Salutati (d. 1406)  as a Janus-like figure, a man at a crossroads, an author on the threshold of a new era that he himself has significantly contributed to usher in while retaining some no-less-significant features of the age about to disappear. There is solid evidence to justify this view of Salutati, as shown in the over 500 pages of this brand new anthology of his “Political Writings” edited by ISI Florence Director Stefano U. Baldassarri with facing English translation by Rolf Bagemihl. The book comprises a selection of state letters by Salutati, his treatise on tyranny, Antonio Loschi’s invective against Florence and the Florentine chancellor’s detailed reply.

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