Renaissance Humanism

Renaissance Humanism

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Renaissance humanism (often designated simply as "humanism") was a European intellectual movement beginning in Florence in the last decades of the... More

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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (February 24, 1463 -November 17, 1494) was an Italian Renaissance philosopher. He was celebrated for the events of... More

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Paul Oskar Kristeller

Paul Oskar Kristeller

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Paul Oskar Kristeller (May 22, 1905 in Berlin - July 7, 1999 in New York, USA) was an important scholar of Renaissance humanism. He was last active... More

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Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

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Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 - December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important... More

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Huldrych Zwingli

Huldrych Zwingli

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Huldrych (or Ulrich) Zwingli or Ulricus Zuinglius (January 1, 1484 - October 11, 1531) was the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland,... More

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Vittorino da Feltre

Vittorino da Feltre

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Vittorino da Feltre (1378 - 1446) was an Italian humanist and teacher, born in Feltre (province of Belluno). His real name was Vittorino... More

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Michael Servetus

Michael Servetus

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Michael Servetus (also Miguel Servet or Miguel Serveto; 29 September, 1511 - 27 October, 1553) was a Spanish theologian, physician and humanist.... More

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Stefano Infessura

Stefano Infessura

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Stefano Infessura (c. 1435 - c. 1500) was an Italian humanist historian and lawyer. He is remembered through his antipapal "Diary of the City of... More

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Julius Caesar Scaliger

Julius Caesar Scaliger

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Julius Caesar Scaliger or Giulio Cesare della Scala (April 23, 1484 - October 21, 1558), was an Italian scholar and physician spending a large part... More

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Jacopo Sannazaro

Jacopo Sannazaro

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Jacopo Sannazaro or Sannazzaro (1458 - April 27, 1530) was a Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples. He wrote easily in Latin, in... More

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