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The Elitist Vernacular of Francesco Cattani da Diacceto and Its Afterlife

IN THE ENTRY devoted to Francesco Cattani da Diacceto (1466–1522) in his Dictionnaire historique et critique, Pierre Bayle was mainly interested in distinguishing Cattani, a Florentine Platonic philosopher, from other figures of the same name and in establishing the correct way of writing his family name (Diaccetus or Jaccetius?). But there would have been more to say regarding Francesco Cattani da Diacceto, who was the most beloved student of Marsilio Ficino and a leading personality in Florence at the beginning of the sixteenth century. His cultural legacy was kept alive for a long time because this Platonist who was appreciated during his lifetime for his philosophical teaching was exalted after his death: first, as a brilliant vernacular writer and, later, as an early proponent of the suitability of writing philosophy in the Tuscan vernacular. Although Cattani is a common presence in the footnotes of articles and books on the birth of vernacular philosophi-