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Also Known As Jan Flachsbinder • Jan Dantyszek
Born November 1, 1485 • Gdańsk • Poland
Died October 27, 1548 (aged 62) • Poland
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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Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
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Magnus Felix Ennodius
Italian bishop and writer
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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Conradus Celtis
German scholar
Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dutch author
Pontano, Giovanni
Giovanni Pontano
Italian writer
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Flavius Cresconius Corippus
Latin poet
Jan Kochanowski, marble bust, c. 1610; in a private collection.
Jan Kochanowski
Polish poet
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Sebastian Klonowic
Polish poet
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
Italian Christian theologian and philosopher
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
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
Ovid
Ovid
Roman poet
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian poet and scholar
Catullus, bust in Sirmione, Italy.
Catullus
Roman poet
Oil portrait of Hugo de Groot, also known as Hugo Grotius, by the workshop of Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, showing him with a ruffled white collar and dark clothing.
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
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Sextus Propertius
Roman poet

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