Petrarch

Petrarch

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

Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Baldassare Castiglione

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

Niccolò Machiavelli

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

Alvise Cornaro

male, deceased (1566)
ItalianRenaissancewriter, Villa dei Vescovi, este, Italian Renaissance author, padua, veneto…Italian, writer
Alvise Cornaro (1484 - May 8, 1566) was an Italian patron of arts, also remembered for his four books of "Discorsi" (published 1583-95) about the...
Leone Battista Alberti

Leone Battista Alberti

male, deceased (1472)
Roman Catholic, Italian Renaissance humanist, Leon Battista Alberti, Renaissance Latin author, Renaissance humanist, linguistics…ItalianRenaissancewriter, 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...
Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto

male, deceased (1533)
ItalianRenaissancewriter, Italian Renaissance humanist, Ancient Greek literature, greek, Latin literature, reggio emilia…Italian Renaissance author, 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...
Lorenzo Valla

Lorenzo Valla

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

Filarete

male
ItalianRenaissancewriter, Architectural theoretician, Battistero di San Giovanni, Castello Sforzesco, Piero de' Medici, Antonio di Pietro Averlino…Italian, Italian Renaissance author, Renaissance architect, architecture writer, Italian Renaissance
Antonio di Pietro Averlino (c. 1400 - c. 1469), also "Averulino", dubbed "Filarete" (Greek "lover of virtue"), was a Florentine architect, sculptor...
Girolamo Fracastoro

Girolamo Fracastoro

male, deceased (1553)
fomes, ItalianRenaissancewriter, From Verona, verona, Italian Renaissance author, physician…Italian
Girolamo Fracastoro (Fracastorius was an Italian physician, scholar (in mathematics, geography and astronomy), poet and atomist. Born of an ancient...