Flavio Biondo

Flavio Biondo

male, deceased (1463)
ItalianRenaissancehumanist, from Forlì, Flavius Blondus, first archaeologist, Ballistario of Cremona, Cancelleria…Renaissance humanist, Renaissance humanism, Italian
Flavio Biondo (Latin Flavius Blondus was an Italian Renaissance humanist historian. He was the historian who coined the term Middle Ages and is...
Petrarch

Petrarch

male, deceased (1374)
Italian Renaissance writer, ItalianRenaissancehumanist, Sonneteers, Renaissance Latin author, Renaissance humanist, Latin writer…Italian Renaissance author, Italian, Humanist
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarcha) (July 20, 1304 - July 19, 1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and early Renaissance humanist. Petrarch is often...
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

male, deceased (1494)
from the Province of Modena, ItalianRenaissancehumanist, Renaissance Latin author, natural philosophy, religion, philosophy…Renaissance, Italian, Renaissance humanism
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (February 24, 1463 -November 17, 1494) was an Italian Renaissance philosopher. He was celebrated for the events of...

Niccolò De' Niccoli

male, deceased (1437)
ItalianRenaissancehumanist, Renaissance humanism, augustus caesar, greek, maecenas, From florence…Italian, Renaissance humanist, Humanist
Niccolò de' Niccoli was an Italian Renaissance humanist. He was born and died in Florence, and was one of the chief figures in the company of l...
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

male, deceased (1519)
inventor, artist, painter, genius, Renaissance, mona lisa…Italian, Renaissance painter, Renaissance architect, renaissance man, Renaissance artist
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect,...

Niccolò Machiavelli

male, deceased (1527)
Italian statesmen, Italian Renaissance writer, ItalianRenaissancehumanist, Roman Catholic, realist, Republicanism…Italian Renaissance, Italian Renaissance author, Italian
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet, and romantic comedic playwright. He is a figure of the I...
Marsilio Ficino

Marsilio Ficino

male, deceased (1499)
Pederasty in the Renaissance, ItalianRenaissancehumanist, Villa Medici at Careggi, Renaissance Latin author, neoplatonism, Renaissance…Italian, Humanist
Marsilio Ficino (Latin name: Marsilius Ficinus; Figline Valdarno, October 19 1433 - Careggi, October 1 1499) was one of the most influential...
Leonardo Bruni

Leonardo Bruni

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

Leone Battista Alberti

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

Poliziano

male, deceased (1494)
Renaissance Latin, ItalianRenaissancehumanist, Renaissance Latin author, manto, florentine, Classical scholar…Italian, Humanist, Florentine Renaissance, Humanist Latin
Angelo Ambrogini, best known as Poliziano (July 14, 1454 - September 24, 1494) was a Florentine classical scholar and poet, one of the revivers of...