10 Facts About Leonardo Bruni

Leonardo Bruni was an Italian humanist, historian and statesman, often recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance.

Leonardo Bruni was the earliest person to write using the three-period view of history: Antiquity, Middle Ages, and Modern.

The dates Leonardo Bruni used to define the periods are not exactly what modern historians use today, but he laid the conceptual groundwork for a tripartite division of history.

Leonardo Bruni was the pupil of political and cultural leader Coluccio Salutati, whom he succeeded as Chancellor of Florence, and under whose tutelage he developed his ideation of civic humanism.

Leonardo Bruni died in 1444 in Florence and was succeeded in office by Carlo Marsuppini.

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Leonardo Bruni argued that Italy had revived in recent centuries and could therefore be described as entering a new age.

Leonardo Bruni was the author of biographies in Italian of Dante and Petrarch.

Leonardo Bruni wrote a short treatise in Greek on the Florentine constitution.

Leonardo Bruni was one of the first Humanists to confront Plato's discussion of same-sex relationships.

Leonardo Bruni died in Florence in 1444, and is buried in a wall tomb by Bernardo Rossellino in the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence.