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Flourished c.1 - c.100
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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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Aulus Cornelius Celsus
Roman medical writer
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Lucius Accius
Roman poet
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Aulus Gellius
Latin author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
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
Guo Moruo
Guo Moruo
Chinese scholar
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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
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Peter Wentworth
English politician
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Johann Gerhard
German theologian