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inently on the inscriptions of tomb and altar- piece, where we read LEONARDUS DE SALU- TATIS EP(ISCOPU)S FESULANUS IURIS CONSULTUS (Fig. 10). Salutati had a good reason to emphasize his juristic background. It was, after all, Leonardo’s grandfather Coluccio, who in his famous treatise De nobilitate legum et medicinae discussed the concept that jurispru- dence was a part of the study of humanities and as such, superior to the merely physical sciences such as medicine.55 The argument that civic law is an articulation of the divine law and hence closely tied to moral philosophy and human- ism is propagated heavily in Coluccio’s treatise.56 In this frame of reference, jurisprudents were deemed to hold a key position, intellectually as well as in moral terms. Coluccio had emphasized that jurisprudents represented a doctrine based on permanent principles both in connection to Christian and Aristotelian thought.57 His trea- tise was part of the attempts of early humanists (Petrarch, Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, Maffeo Vegio and others) to upgrade the social image of jurisprudence, attempts which also re- flected and prevailed in the patronage of Leonar- do Salutati’s contemporaries.58 For the self-definition of notaries and juris- prudents of the fourteenth and fifteenth centur- ies, Saint Jerome was the key historical reference and figure of identification.59 The Hieronymianus treatise by Bolognese jurisprudent Giovanni d’Andreae (1342) helped significantly in estab- lishing the prominent cult around the church father.60 As part of the ascetic ideal of monastic Fig. 10: Mino da Fiesole, Altarpiece for Leonardo Salutati (detail): inscription. jeanette kohl162 55 See the preface by E. Kessler in: Coluccio Salutati (cit. n. 29), pp. VII–XXV. 56 D. R. Kelley, Vera Philosophia: The Philosophical Significance of Renaissance Jurisprudence, in: Journal of the History of Philosophy 14/3, July 1976, pp. 267–279. 57 See M. Lobban, A History of the Philosophy of Law in the Common Law World, 1600–1900, vol. 8 of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence (ed. E. Pattaro), Dordrecht 2007, p. 57. 58 See A. von Hülsen-Esch’s well-researched publications on the representation of humanists, in particular jurispru- dents: Gelehrte im Bild. Repräsentation, Darstellung und Wahrnehmung einer sozialen Gruppe im Spätmittelalter, Göttingen 2006, pp. 163–203, in particular pp. 183–193; A. von Hülsen-Esch, Kleider machen Leute. Zur Grup- penrepräsentation von Gelehrten im Spätmittelalter, in: Die Repräsentation der Gruppen: Texte, Bilder, Objekte (ed. O.G. Oexle/A. von Hülsen-Esch), Göttingen 1998, pp. 225–258. Laura Goldenbaum has recently analysed the ‘self-fashioning’ of Mariano Sozzini, a Sienese jurisprudent, and the way in which concepts of law, authenticity and authority are reflected in his bronze gisant, now in the Museo del Bargello in Florence. L. Goldenbaum, Der Zeugniswert des Körpers oder anima forma corporis. Der quattrocenteske Bronzegisant des Sieneser Rechtsgelehrten Mariano Sozzini, in: kunsttexte 4, 2010. http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/kunsttexte/2010-4/goldenbaum-laura-5/PDF/ goldenbaum.pdf (last access March 13, 2015). There are other manifestations of the status of jurisprudents and humanist-bishops and their attempts to create an improved social identity, in particular in the tombs of human- ists and lawyers in late medieval Bologna, see R. Wolff, Zur ‘Gruppe’ der Gelehrtengrabmäler des Mittelalters in Oberitalien, in: Creating Identities. Die Funktion von Grabmalen und öffentlichen Denkmalen in Gruppenbil- dungsprozessen, Kassel 2007, pp. 219–230. 59 E. F. Rice, Saint Jerome in the Renaissance, Baltimore/London 1985; C. Wiebel, Askese und Endlichkeitsdemut in der italienischen Renaissance, Weinheim 1988; B. Ridderbos, Saint and Symbol. Images of Saint Jerome in Early Italian Art, Groningen 1984; A. Pöllmann, Von der Entwicklung des Hieronymus-Typus in der älteren Kunst, in: Benediktinische Monatsschrift 2, 1920, pp. 438–522. 60 See also Hülsen-Esch, Kleider machen Leute (cit. n. 58), p. 228. Open Access © 2018 by BÖHLAU VERLAG GMBH & CO.KG, WIEN KÖLN WEIMAR