Julius Pomponius Laetus: Quick Facts

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Niccolò Machiavelli

Italian statesman and writer

Andrea Palladio

Italian architect

Petrarch

Italian poet

Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian poet and scholar

Leon Battista Alberti

Italian architect and author

Masaccio

Italian painter

Lorenzo Valla

Italian humanist

Francesco Guicciardini

Italian historian and statesman

Nicholas V

pope

Pius II

pope

Poliziano

Italian poet and humanist

Baldassare Castiglione

Italian author

Tommaso Campanella

Italian philosopher and poet

Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini

Italian scholar

Flavio Biondo

Italian historian

Coluccio Salutati

Florentine chancellor

Pietro Pomponazzi

Italian philosopher

Girolamo Aleandro

Italian cardinal

Giovanni Pontano

Italian writer

Fra Giovanni Giocondo

Italian architect