Petrarch

Petrarch

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

Renaissance Humanism

male
ancient greek, studia humanitatis, introspection, Renaissancehumanist, 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 Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

male, deceased (1375)
chivalry, Italian Renaissance writer, from the Province of Florence, Renaissance Latin author, Christian, decameron…Renaissance humanism, Renaissancehumanist, 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...
Flavio Biondo

Flavio Biondo

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

Leone Battista Alberti

male, deceased (1472)
Roman Catholic, Italian Renaissance humanist, Leon Battista Alberti, Renaissance Latin author, Renaissancehumanist, 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...

Niccolò De' Niccoli

male, deceased (1437)
Italian Renaissance humanist, Renaissance humanism, augustus caesar, greek, maecenas, From florence…Renaissancehumanist, 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...
Justus Lipsius

Justus Lipsius

male, deceased (1606)
Leiden University faculty, Cardinal Granvelle, Renaissancehumanist, Leuven alumni before 1968, humanism, flemish…Humanist
Justus Lipsius, Joost Lips or Josse Lips, was a Flemish philologist and humanist. He was born in Overijse, Brabant. His parents sent him early to...
George Buchanan

George Buchanan

male, deceased (1582)
Monarchomach, Monarchomachs, buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Renaissance Latin author, Renaissancehumanist, Scholar…Humanist
George Buchanan, BA, MA (February, 1506 - September 28, 1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. He was part of the Monarchomach movement.
Comenius

Comenius

male, deceased (1670)
Theologian, Renaissancehumanist, 17th century, Schoolteacher, Educator, Humanist
John Amos Comenius (latinized: "Iohannes Amos Comenius") (March 28, 1592 - November 15, 1670) was a Czech teacher, scientist, educator, and writer....
Jakob Wimpfeling

Jakob Wimpfeling

male, deceased (1528)
German Renaissance humanist, German native of Alsace, canon law, Humanist, magister, alsace…Renaissance humanism, Renaissancehumanist
Jakob Wimpfeling (July 25, 1450-November 17, 1528) was a German Renaissance humanist and theologian. Wimpfeling was born in Schlettstadt, Alsace....