Coluccio Salutati, Italian political leader (died 1406)

Coluccio Salutati was an Italian Renaissance humanist and notary, and one of the most important political and cultural leaders of Renaissance Florence; as chancellor of the Florentine Republic and its most prominent voice, he was effectively the permanent secretary of state in the generation before the rise of the powerful Medici family.

February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 318 days remain until the end of the year.