Zanobi da Strada
He had founded the Florentine Giovanni Boccaccio and other scholars a literary society.
From 1335 he was professor of Latin grammar in Florence. He also was a political secretary to the King of Naples. The end of 1349 he was in the service of Niccolò Acciaiuoli from the family Acciaiuoli. In 1350 he was friend of Francesco Petrarch on his trip to Florence. In 1355 he was crowned by Emperor Charles IV in Pisa with the poet's crown. 1358/59 he was the first Tuscan humanist who. Below Innocent VI has been permanently employed at the papal chancery as apostolic prothonotary. Urban V appointed later Francesco Bruni from Florence to the papal secretary to Avignon.