Aelius Donatus: Quick Facts

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Flourished	c.325 - c.275
Subjects Of Study	Terence • Virgil • Latin language • grammar

Julius Caesar Scaliger

French scholar

George Of Trebizond

Byzantine humanist

Johan Nicolai Madvig

Danish scholar

Marcus Cornelius Fronto

Roman orator

Publius Nigidius Figulus

Roman author

Fabius Planciades Fulgentius

Latin author

Servius

Roman author

Nonius Marcellus

Latin grammarian and lexicographer

John Amos Comenius

Czech educator

Lorenzo Valla

Italian humanist

Poliziano

Italian poet and humanist

Joost van den Vondel

Dutch writer

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Martin Opitz

German poet

F.W. Ritschl

German scholar

August Schleicher

German linguist

Louis Zukofsky

American poet

Robert Fitzgerald

American poet

Horace Gregory

American poet and critic

Aristophanes Of Byzantium

Greek critic and grammarian