As chancellor of Florence from 1465 to 1497 and a contemporary of Marsilio Ficino, Scala is an indisputably important, though no doubt contentious, Quattrocento figure. His humanistic writings consist of five unpublished works, including a newly discovered second hundred fables, the first Centum Apologi , his dialogue on laws and legal judgments, and his late and little-known defence of Savonarolan Florence, which draws on material from autograph drafts of letters and treatises. This edition will be especially valuable to all political and social historians of the period, as well as to students of Renaissance humanism and of Latin and Italian philology. A Critical Edition and Translation Carol V. Kaske and John R. Clark Ficino's treatise on the health of the intellectual anticipates Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. A first reconstruction of the original text, together with a lively translation.
English translations accompany the edited Greek texts.