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Born 1490? • Cuenca • Spain
Died October 3, 1532? • Vienna
Notable Works “Diálogo de Mercurio y Carón” • “Diálogo de las cosas ocurridas en Romá”
Notable Family Members brother Juan de Valdés
Role In Diet of Worms
Juan Luis Vives
Juan Luis Vives
Spanish humanist
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Iñigo López de Mendoza, marquis de Santillana
Spanish poet
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Juan de Valdés
Spanish author
John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
Portrait of Niccolo Machiavelli by Santi di Tito shows Machiavelli in black and red robes, holding a document, against a plain background.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman and writer
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, shown in dark robes and cap, writing with a quill at a desk, after Quinten Massijs, oil on panel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Andrea Palladio: Villa Rotonda
Andrea Palladio
Italian architect
François Rabelais
François Rabelais
French author
Portrait of Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger, showing More in dark robes and a black hat, wearing a gold chain of office, seated against a green and yellow draped background.
Thomas More
English humanist and statesman
Engraving of Petrarch wearing a laurel wreath and a robe, holding a closed book in his left hand.
Petrarch
Italian poet
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian poet and scholar
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and author
Masaccio: Holy Trinity
Masaccio
Italian painter
Philipp Melanchthon
Philipp Melanchthon
German theologian
Bosio, Jean-Baptiste-François: Portrait of Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
French philosopher and humanist
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Lorenzo Valla
Italian humanist
Guicciardini, Francesco
Francesco Guicciardini
Italian historian and statesman
Montúfar, Antonio: Saint Francis of Assisi Appearing Before Pope Nicholas V, with Donors
Nicholas V
pope
Pius II
Pius II
pope
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Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist