Petrarch

Petrarch

male, deceased (1374)
Italian Renaissance writer, Italian Renaissance humanist, Sonneteers, Renaissance Latin author, Renaissance humanist, Latin writer…Medieval Latin author, ItalianRenaissanceauthor, Italian
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarcha) (July 20, 1304 - July 19, 1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and early Renaissance humanist. Petrarch is often...
Matteo Maria Boiardo

Matteo Maria Boiardo

male, deceased (1494)
from the Province of Reggio Emilia, Italian Renaissance writer, chivalry, Eleonora of Aragon, Tarot, gesso…ItalianRenaissanceauthor, Italian
Matteo Maria Boiardo (c. 1434 - December 20, 1494), was an Italian Renaissance poet. Boiardo was born at, or near, Scandiano (today's province of...
Baldassare Castiglione

Baldassare Castiglione

male, deceased (1529)
from the Province of Mantua, Italian Renaissance writer, mother, Rhetorician, lombardy, ItalianRenaissanceauthor…Renaissance, author, Italian
Baldassare Castiglione, count of Novellata (December 6, 1478 - February 2, 1529), was a diplomat and was a very prominent Renaissance author. He...
Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto

male, deceased (1533)
Italian Renaissance writer, Italian Renaissance humanist, Ancient Greek literature, greek, Latin literature, reggio emilia…ItalianRenaissanceauthor, Italian
Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet, author of the epic poem "Orlando furioso" (1516), "Orlando Enraged". He was born at Reggio, in Emilia, where...
Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

male, deceased (1375)
chivalry, Italian Renaissance writer, from the Province of Florence, Renaissance Latin author, Christian, decameron…Renaissance humanism, Renaissance humanist, Italian, ItalianRenaissanceauthor
Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 - December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important...
Lorenzo Valla

Lorenzo Valla

male, deceased (1457)
Italian Renaissance writer, Italian Renaissance humanist, Renaissance Latin author, humanism, ItalianRenaissanceauthor, lawyer…Italian
Lorenzo (or Laurentius) Valla (c. 1406 - August 1, 1457) was an Italian humanist, rhetorician, and educator. His family was from Piacenza; his...
Leonardo Bruni

Leonardo Bruni

male, deceased (1444)
Italian Renaissance writer, Italian Renaissance humanist, Renaissance Latin author, humanism, from Arezzo, ItalianRenaissanceauthor
Leonardo Bruni (or "Leonardo Aretino") ("c".1370 - March 9 1444), was a leading humanist, historian and a chancellor of Florence. He has been...
Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini

male, deceased (1540)
Italian Renaissance writer, From florence, ItalianRenaissanceauthor, politician, Italian, statesman…Italian Renaissance
Francesco Guicciardini was an Italian historian and statesman. A friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli, he is considered one of the major p...
Leone Battista Alberti

Leone Battista Alberti

male, deceased (1472)
Roman Catholic, Italian Renaissance humanist, Leon Battista Alberti, Renaissance Latin author, Renaissance humanist, linguistics…Italian Renaissance writer, Italian, ItalianRenaissanceauthor, Renaissance, Renaissance painter
Leon Battista Alberti (February 14, 1404 - April 25, 1472) was an Italian author, poet, linguist, architect, philosopher, cryptographer, and...
Coluccio Salutati

Coluccio Salutati

male, deceased (1406)
Italian Renaissance writer, from the Province of Pistoia, From Tuscany, politician, Renaissance, Florence, Italy…ItalianRenaissanceauthor, Italian
Coluccio Salutati (February 16 1331 - May 4 1406) was one of the most important political and cultural leaders of Renaissance Florence.