Communication d’H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Miesse, \u00ab Goro Gheri as the \u201cperfect secretary\u201d \u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n Gregorio Gheri da Pistoia (ca. 1470-1528) is still an \u201cantico segretario\u201d, according Alessandro Tassoni (Considerazioni sopra le Rime di Petrarca<\/em>, 1618) which, after Petrarca, used the expression to describe the conjunction, in a single man, of rhetorical, diplomatic and cultural abilities. The career of Lorenzo II de Medici\u2019s secretary happened before having been completed the hard and nonlinear change \u2013 acted by treatises\u2019 authors \u2013 that saw the secretary’s role shifting from erudite counsellor at the prince’s service, to the role of servant in a more of the secretary.<\/p>\n The letters that Gheri transcribed in his copialettere<\/em> (Archivio di Stato de Florence, copialettere di Goro Gheri, 5 unit\u00e0; Mediceo avanti il Principato, 142) have never been studied in a systematical way. Thanks to those numerous documents, it is possible to retrace the many-sided figure of Gheri who was a kind of \u201cperfect secretary\u201d, according the definition given by the latter authors of treatises. The letters show that Gheri was together a man of the court, almost a member of the family, a lawyer, an expert in political matters as well in artistic culture and diplomacy.<\/p>\n T\u00c9L\u00c9CHARGEMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n