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lord, whom he served till his death. Coluccio received his 
education in that city, and by his father’s command ap¬ 
plied himself to the study of the law, which he quitted 
for the more pleasing and elegant pursuits of rhetoric and 
poetry, as soon as he became his own master. In the year 
1368, he was the colleague of Francesco Bruni in the 
office of Apostolical secretary to pope Urban V. It is 
probable, that when this pontiff returned to France, Co- 
luccio quitted the papal court and married. He had, how¬ 
ever, previously to this, acquired so high a reputation for 
eloquence, that various states and sovereigns sent him in¬ 
vitations to enter into their service, but his attachment to 
his native country caused him to give a decided preference 
to the Florentine republic, of which he was, in 1375, 
made the chancellor, an office which he held many years: 
during this period he was engaged in almost every im¬ 
portant transaction that had occured in Italy. Such was 
his influence and the force of his eloquence, that Gianga- 
leazzo, duke of Milan, was accustomed to say, that a single 
letter of G’oluccio did him more mischief than a body of 
a thousand Florentine horse. In the midst of his public 
occupations, he was attentive to the interests of litera¬ 
ture, which few persons of his time promoted with more 
assiduity. He died in 1406, in the 76th year of his age. 
On account of his great merit a public funeral was decreed 
to him, and on this occasion the whole city spontaneously 
attended, and a garland of laurel was solemnly placed on 
his bier. Of his writings, which were numerous, none have 
been published, except a treatise “De Nobilitate Legum ac 
Medicinae,” a sonnet, some Latin poems, and two collec¬ 
tions of letters made by Metius and Rigacci. The letters 
contain many curious particulars of the literature and poli¬ 
tics of the time. He wrote a treatise concerning the cor¬ 
ruption of the manuscripts of ancient authors, and the 
means of remedying it by the careful collation of different 
copies; and he himself collected 600 volumes, which was 
a vast library for the period, considering that the art of 
printing had not been then discovered. His own composi¬ 
tions, in prose and verse, obtained the highest eulogies from 
his contemporaries, who were disposed to give him rank by 
the side of Cicero and Virgil, to which, by the way, he 
had no claim whatever. He was, nevertheless, a man of 
very extensive erudition, and well acquainted with the lite¬ 
rature then chiefly in esteem. 
SALUTATORIUM, in Nunneries, was a place where 
the nuns received the salutation of those that came to see 
them. 
Salutatorium was also used for the vestry, or place where 
the bishop was dressed, and received the salutation of visit¬ 
ants before divine service. 
SALUTATORY, s. [salutatorium, low Lat] Place of 
greeting. Not in use .—Coming to the bishop with suppli¬ 
cation into the salutatory, some out-porch of the church. 
Milton. 
To SALUTE, v. a. [saluto, Lat. salucr, Fr.] Our old 
writers accordingly follow the French, and write sa/ue, or 
sa/ew, as Gomer and Chaucer. Halevi is also used by Spen¬ 
ser. F.Q. iv. vi. 25.—To greet; to hail. 
One hour hence 
Shall salute your grace of York as mother. Shahspeare. 
To please; to gratify. 
Would I had no being, 
If this salute my blood a jot: it faints me, 
To think what follows. Shakspeare. 
To kiss.—You have the prettiest tip of a finger.—I must 
take the freedom to salute it. Addison. 
SALUTE, s, Salutation ; greeting. 
O, what avails me now that honour high 
To have conceived of God; or that salute. 
Hail, highly favour’d, among woman blest. Milton. 
A kiss.—There cold salutes, but here a lover’s kiss. 
Roscommon. 
S A L 
SALUTE, an ancient name of a coin made by king 
Henry V. after his conquest in France, on which the arms' 
of France and England were stamped and quartered. 
. SALUTE R, s. He who salutes. 
SALUTIFEROUS, adj. [salutifer, Lat.] Healthy; bring¬ 
ing health.—The king commanded him to goto the south of 
France, believing that nothing would contribute more to the 
restoring of his former vigour than the gentle salutiferous air 
of Montpelier. Dennis. 
SALUTIGERULI, among the Romans, were servants 
chiefly employed by the women in carrying salutations to. 
one another. 
SALUZZO, a district in the north-west of Italy, in Pied¬ 
mont, forming part of the continental states of the king of 
Sardinia, and bounded by the county of Nice, the valley of 
Lucerne, and the frontier of France, extending along the 
province of Dauphiny. It has a superficial extent of 750 
square miles,and a populationof 126,000. Its surface ismoun- 
tainous and rugged; but from warmth of climate, its soil is 
in many parts fertile, producing corn, hemp, fruit, wine, 
and silk. It is commonly called the Marquisate of Saluzzo. 
SALUZZO, a town of the Sardinian states, in the north¬ 
west of Italy, the capital of the district of the same name, si¬ 
tuated at the foot of the Alps, not far from the source of the 
Po. Including its suburbs, it has above 10,000 inhabitants. 
It stands on an eminence, in the midst of a plain, which 
gives it the double advantage of a fine prospect and a healthy 
atmosphere. It is . tolerably well built, and contains the 
cathedral and several churches worth notice. Of its manu¬ 
factures, those of silk are the most extensive. It is the see of 
a bishop; 28 miles south of Turin. Lat. 44. 40. N. long. 
7. 26. E. 
SALUZZOLA, a small town of the north-west of Italy, 
in Piedmont, situated on the acclivity of a hill, at the foot of- 
which flows the Elvo. Its population amounts to 2000. I li¬ 
the neighbourhood is a hill, containing some mines of gold 
and silver; 18 miles west-north-west of Vercelli. 
SALWATTY, an island in the Pacific ocean, near the 
north-west coast of New Guinea, from which it is separated 
by a narrow channel, called Revenge Strait, of an ov.al form, 
inclining to a triangle, about 90 miles in circumference. It 
is governed by a rajah, but so much under the controul of 
the Dutch, that some years since they seized one of the rajahs: 
who had offended them, and conveyed him to the Cape of. 
Good Hope. Lat. 1. 6. S. long. 131. 15. E. 
SALZ, a small river of the west of Germany, which falls 
into the Rhine ; 4 miles above Spire. 
SALZA, or Salzach, a large river of Austria, in the, 
duchy of Salzburg, which rises in the south part of the pro¬ 
vince, and after passing Hallein, Salzburg, and other towns, 
falls into the Inn. It begins to be navigable at Hallein. 
SALZA, a small river of Saxony, which flows through 
the territory of Nordhausen, and falls into the Helm. , 
SALZA, Great, a town of Prussian Saxony, near the 1 
Elbe, with 1600 inhabitants; 12 miles south-east of Magde¬ 
burg. Lat. 52. 0. N. long. 12. 0. E. 
SALZBRUNN, a village of Prussian Silesia, in the govern-, 
ment of Reichenbach, with 1700 inhabitants. 
SALZBURG, a province in the west of the Austrian em¬ 
pire, lying between Styria, Tyrol, and Bavaria. Its area, 
since the cession of Berchtolsgaden to Bavaria, does not 
exceed 2800 square miles, nor its population 142,000. It 
consists partly of a great valley, with the river Salza flowing 
along the middle; partly of a track of alternate mountains 
and defiles. The ground is highest in the south, where if 
approaches to, or rather forms part of, the None Alps; for 
there, as in Switzerland, are mountains, lakes, glaciers, ava-i 
lanches, and all the accompaniments of Alpine scenery. 
The climate of this mountainous region is much more severe 
than might be expected in a track of land lying between 46< 
55. and 47. 58, of north latitude. Even in the neighbour¬ 
hood of Salzburg, the hills, which are here much inferior to- 
those of the south, are covered with snow before October, 
though it does not lie constantly till November. In the; 
south, the winter lasts, with little intermission, from the 
beginning 
