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grandfather had cultivated.17 Although we do not know much about his life and he would never become the political heavyweight his grandfather had been, Leonardo was a highly successful no- tary and an influential cleric both in Rome and in Florence.18 He became canon of the Florence bishopric in 1438 and served as chierico di camera under Pope Eugene IV in Rome.19 In 1450, dur- ing the papacy of Nicholas V, he was consecrated Bishop of Fiesole. In 1462, Leonardo purchased the chapel in the nave of the Fiesole cathedral and made provisions for a tomb monument and altar to be built in the chapel, which is dedi- cated to his namesake, San Leonardo.20 Mino da Fiesole, who had just returned from Rome to Florence in 1464, was given the commission. Both the tomb monument and the chapel’s altar- piece were practically finished when Salutati died on November 17, 1466.21 The Salutati monument was executed during the heyday of ambitious commissions for tombs of eminent Florentine humanists and city offi- cials. It dates from shortly after the monuments to Leonardo Bruni (1450, by Bernardo Rossellini) and Carlo Marsuppini (1453–1455, by Desiderio da Settignano) in Santa Croce, and before Mino’s tombs in the Badia Fiorentina: the Giugni monu- ment of 1466–68 and the tomb for Margrave Hugo of 1471–81.22 Construction on the famous and no less innovative chapel and monument to the cardinal of Portugal in San Miniato al Monte (1460–68) was well underway after the young car- dinal’s untimely death in August of 1459.23 While Mino’s reception of the import- ant monuments to Bruni and Marsuppini is quite evident in his Badia tombs, the Salutati monument sets an entirely new tone.24 It does not follow the predominant type of mid-cen- tury tombs with a framing triumphal arch sug- gesting a niche.25 Instead it reinterprets the more traditional type of the sepolcro in aria popular in the Trecento and combines it with the rath- jeanette kohl154 17 As the Encyclopedia Brittanica, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/519977/Coluccio-Salutati (last accessed March 6, 2015), has it, Coluccio’s ‘Latin letters to other states were so effective that the tyrannical Duke of Milan, one of the targets of his scorn, said that a thousand Florentine horsemen were less damaging than Salutati’s epistles.’ 18 G. Ansaldi, Cenni biografici die personaggi illustri della città di Pescia e suoi dintorni, Pescia 1872, pp. 249–255. Archivio Biografico Italiano, F. 877, pp. 249–255. See also L. Martines, The Social World of the Florentine Human- ists, 1390–1460, Toronto 2011, p. 149. 19 S. Salvini, Catalogo Cronologico de‘ Canonici della Chiesa Metropolitana Fiorentina, Florence 1782, p. 40. 20 The earliest extant document in relation to the chapel is dated February 26, 1462. See A.M. Bandini, Lettere XII. Della Città di Fiesole e suoi Contorni, Siena 1800, p. 179. n. 12: ‘Per rogito di Ser Andrea Die a di 26. Febbraio 1462 Mons. Salutati dota la Capella di S. Leonardo posta nella Cattedrale di Fiesole (…).’ Zuraw, The Sculpture of Mino da Fiesole (cit. n. 13), p. 783 mentions that the document is still in the archives of the Fiesole cathedral. 21 For date and chronology see in parricular F. Caglioti, Mino da Fiesole, Mino del Reame, Mino da Montemignaio: un caso chiarito di sdoppiamento di identità artistica, in: Bolletino d’Arte 76, no. 67, 1991, p. 23 and n. 29. Leonardo bequeathed the chapel to his nephew Benedetto and his male descendants, and should the line become extinct, to the Florentine Arte di Cambio; see ibid. 22 S. Zuraw, The Public Commemorative Monument: Mino da Fiesole’s Tombs in the Florentine Badia, in: Art Bul- letin 80, 1998, pp. 452–477. 23 L. A. Koch, The Early Christian Revival at S. Miniato al Monte: The Cardinal of Portugal Chapel, in: Art Bulletin 78, 1996, pp. 527–555; M. Hansmann, Die Kapelle des Kardinals von Portugal in S. Miniato al Monte. Ein dynas- tisches Grabmonument aus der Zeit Piero de’Medicis, in: Piero de’Medici ‘il Gottoso’ (1416–69). Kunst im Dienste der Mediceer (ed. A.Beyer/ B. Boucher), Berlin 1993, pp. 291–316; F. Hartt, The Chapel of the Cardinal of Portu- gal, 1434–1459, at San Miniato in Florence, Philadelphia 1964. 24 The tomb’s unusual type is briefly mentioned in Angeli, Mino da Fiesole (cit. n. 13), p. 114; see also Lange, Mino da Fies- ole (cit. n. 13), pp. 8–14, who emphasizes ‘wie weit sich Mino von den Grabmaltypen seiner Zeit emanzipiert’, ibid, p. 10. 25 Different types of wall-mounted tombs are discussed in Burger, Geschichte des florentinischen Grabmals (cit. n. 11), in particular pp. 59–80 for sarcophagi on corbels. Open Access © 2018 by BÖHLAU VERLAG GMBH & CO.KG, WIEN KÖLN WEIMAR