Thomas More

Thomas More

male, deceased (1535)
Roman Catholic, executed under the Tudors, from the City of London, English Renaissance humanist, Old Waynflete, Catholic martyr of the Early Modern era…RenaissanceLatinauthor
Thomas More Thomas More Thomas More had an education suited to a son of a gentleman, and seemed destined for the legal career mapped out by his...
Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

male, deceased (1321)
the divine comedy, commedia, central work, il Sommo Poeta, RenaissanceLatinauthor, From florence
Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante, (May 14/June 13 1265 - September 13/14, 1321) was an Italian poet from...
Petrarch

Petrarch

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

George Buchanan

male, deceased (1582)
Monarchomach, Monarchomachs, buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, RenaissanceLatinauthor, Renaissance humanist, Scholar…Post-imperial Latin poet
George Buchanan, BA, MA (February, 1506 - September 28, 1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. He was part of the Monarchomach movement.
Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

male, deceased (1375)
chivalry, Italian Renaissance writer, from the Province of Florence, RenaissanceLatinauthor, Christian, decameron…Renaissance humanism, Renaissance humanist, 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...
Leone Battista Alberti

Leone Battista Alberti

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

Marsilio Ficino

male, deceased (1499)
Pederasty in the Renaissance, Italian Renaissance humanist, Villa Medici at Careggi, RenaissanceLatinauthor, neoplatonism, Renaissance
Marsilio Ficino (Latin name: Marsilius Ficinus; Figline Valdarno, October 19 1433 - Careggi, October 1 1499) was one of the most influential...
William Of Ockham

William Of Ockham

male, deceased (1349)
RenaissanceLatinauthor, scholastic, Logician, Philosopher of language, Scholastic philosopher, logic
William of Ockham (also Occam or any of several other spellings,) (c. 1288 - c. 1348) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher,...
Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus

male, deceased (1536)
RenaissanceLatinauthor, On Civility in Child, Dutch Renaissance humanist, Leuven alumni before 1968, reformation, greek…latin language, author
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27, 1466/1469 - July 12, 1536) was a Dutch humanist...
Poliziano

Poliziano

male, deceased (1494)
Renaissance Latin, Italian Renaissance humanist, RenaissanceLatinauthor, manto, florentine, Classical scholar…Post-imperial Latin poet, 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...