Abstract
In an autobiographical essay, Paul Oskar Kristeller once recalled that his theory that humanism was part of a tradition that could be traced back to classical rhetoric had been influenced by Werner Jaeger. The scholar of humanistic culture between the late fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century is immediately struck by the difference between a page by Coluccio Salutati and one by Leonardo Bruni, authors who shared the same civic background, moved in the same institutional framework and, at least apparently, followed the same cultural and scholarly careers. In order to understand Scholasticism, it is fundamental to understand the importance of tradition, the strength of the tradere. The auctoritates were the intermediaries in the transmission of truth, they consisted of both sacred and profane texts officially recognized as being endowed with a presumption of truth. Keywords: Coluccio Salutati; humanism; Leonardo Bruni; Paul Oskar Kristeller; scholasticism; Werner Jaeger
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