In the early Renaissance, humanist scholars discovered Carolingian and Romanesquemanuscripts, which they interpreted as classical in content and lettering style. These discoveries subsequently influenced Florentine artists, who created a new script known today as Sanserif. The Tomb of Leonardo Bruni by Bernardo Rossellino has a dedicatory inscription carved with these capitals situated under the deceased effigy. Bruni’s effigy also holds a marble depiction of the History of the Florentine People, his most famous manuscript that provided contemporary Florentines with the notion that they were the heirs to the Roman Republic. This thesis argues that the letters used for the inscription came from humanist manuscripts. The type of monument Bruni received and its honorific location in Santa Croce were meant to honor him as a classical scholar and visually support the promotion of the History by the Florentine populace as influential for granting them parity with the Republican Romans.