Renaissance Humanism

RenaissanceHumanism

male
ancient greek, studia humanitatis, introspection, Renaissance humanist, humility, humanism…Renaissance
Renaissance humanism (often designated simply as "humanism") was a European intellectual movement beginning in Florence in the last decades of the...
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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

Paul Oskar Kristeller

male, deceased (1999)
Yale University, Columbia University, philosophy, University of Heidelberg, Renaissancehumanism, National Socialist
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...
Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

male, deceased (1375)
chivalry, Italian Renaissance writer, from the Province of Florence, Renaissance Latin author, Christian, decameron…Renaissancehumanism, 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...
Huldrych Zwingli

Huldrych Zwingli

male, deceased (1531)
Ulricus Zuinglius, Calvinist ministers and theologian, Killed in action, Renaissancehumanism, St. Gallen, cantons of Switzerland
Huldrych (or Ulrich) Zwingli or Ulricus Zuinglius (January 1, 1484 - October 11, 1531) was the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland,...
Vittorino da Feltre

Vittorino da Feltre

male, deceased (1446)
Federigo da Montefeltro, from the Province of Belluno, Italian Renaissance humanist, fifteenth century, Francesco Filelfo, Italian humanist…Renaissancehumanism
Vittorino da Feltre (1378 - 1446) was an Italian humanist and teacher, born in Feltre (province of Belluno). His real name was Vittorino...
Michael Servetus

Michael Servetus

male, deceased (1553)
Protestant martyr of the Early Modern era, nontrinitarian, Christology, protestant reformation, scientist, spanish…Renaissancehumanism
Michael Servetus (also Miguel Servet or Miguel Serveto; 29 September, 1511 - 27 October, 1553) was a Spanish theologian, physician and humanist....
Stefano Infessura

Stefano Infessura

male, 574 years old
Italian Renaissance humanist, Sixtus IV, Italian, lawyer, Roman Law, From Rome…Renaissancehumanism
Stefano Infessura (c. 1435 - c. 1500) was an Italian humanist historian and lawyer. He is remembered through his antipapal "Diary of the City of...
Julius Caesar Scaliger

Julius Caesar Scaliger

male, deceased (1558)
from the Province of Trento, Italian Renaissance humanist, Jacques August de Thou, Giulio Cesare della Scala, Aristotelianism, Renaissancehumanism
Julius Caesar Scaliger or Giulio Cesare della Scala (April 23, 1484 - October 21, 1558), was an Italian scholar and physician spending a large part...
Jacopo Sannazaro

Jacopo Sannazaro

male, deceased (1530)
latin language, Neapolitan language, poet, Et In Arcadia Ego, Sannazzaro, Napuletano…Renaissancehumanism
Jacopo Sannazaro or Sannazzaro (1458 - April 27, 1530) was a Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples. He wrote easily in Latin, in...