Febo Capella (c. 1420 – 1482) was a Venetian official and humanist scholar, who ascended to the highest non-patrician office, that of grand chancellor.
[1] As ducal secretary, Capella is attested as leading diplomatic missions on his own, to the King of Naples René of Anjou (1455), the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III (1459), and to the Republic of Florence (1460).
[1] He was elected to the office of grand chancellor, the highest post available to a commoner,[2] on 28 May 1480, but held it for less than two years, as he died in early 1482.
[3] Capella was a member of the contemporary circle of Venetian humanist scholars, including several of commoner origin.
Some of his correspondence with them survives, and several of them—Marsilio Ficino, Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus, Marino Becichemo, and Niccolò Sagundino—dedicated some of their works to him.