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Also Known As lingua Latina

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Erasmus
Dutch humanist
José de Ribera: Saint Jerome
St. Jerome
Christian scholar
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John Amos Comenius
Czech educator
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, woodcut, 1537.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Roman scholar, philosopher, and statesman
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Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
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Marsilio Ficino
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William of Moerbeke
Belgian archbishop
Joost van den Vondel
Joost van den Vondel
Dutch writer
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
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Nicholas Udall
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Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
French humanist and theologian
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Gawin Douglas
Scottish bishop and poet
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
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
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Maximus Planudes
Byzantine scholar and theologian
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John Scotus Erigena
Irish philosopher
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Tyrannius Rufinus
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Louis Zukofsky
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