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Flourished 1 - 100 • Rome • Italy
Notable Works “De medicina”
Subjects Of Study inflammation • disinfectant
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Lucius Apuleius
Roman philosopher and scholar
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Marcus Terentius Varro
Roman author
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Cassiodorus
historian, statesman, and monk
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Lucius Accius
Roman poet
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Gaius Julius Hyginus
Roman author
Engraving of Petrarch wearing a laurel wreath and a robe, holding a closed book in his left hand.
Petrarch
Italian poet
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Adso of Montier-en-Der
Benedictine monk and abbot
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Godfrey of Saint-Victor
French philosopher
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
Richard Bentley, detail of an oil painting by James Thornhill, 1710; in Trinity College, Cambridge.
Richard Bentley
British scholar
George Buchanan, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist after a portrait by Arnold Bronkhorst, 1581; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Buchanan
Scottish writer and educator
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Julius Caesar Scaliger
French scholar
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Theodulf of Orléans
bishop and poet
Justus Lipsius, oil painting by an unknown artist, 1585; in the Musee Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp
Justus Lipsius
Belgian scholar
Pontano, Giovanni
Giovanni Pontano
Italian writer
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Horace
Roman poet
Marble bust of Marcus Tullius Cicero, shown with short hair and draped clothing, displayed against a black background.
Cicero
Roman statesman, scholar, and writer
Ancient Roman mosaic showing the poet Virgil seated and writing, flanked by the muses Clio and Melpomene, displayed in a decorative border.
Virgil
Roman poet
Tacitus
Tacitus
Roman historian

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