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Also Known As Paulus Helie • Paulus Eliesen • Paulus Eliae
Born c.1485 • Sweden
Died c.1535
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
Montúfar, Antonio: Saint Francis of Assisi Appearing Before Pope Nicholas V, with Donors
Nicholas V
pope
Pius II
Pius II
pope
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Tommaso Campanella
Italian philosopher and poet
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Saint John Fisher
English priest
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Nicholas Of Clémanges
French theologian
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Isidore Of Kiev
Greek Orthodox patriarch
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Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
French humanist and theologian
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Demetrius Cydones
Byzantine scholar and statesman
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Bessarion
Byzantine theologian
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Johannes Cochlaeus
German humanist
Aleandro, detail of an engraving by an unknown artist
Girolamo Aleandro
Italian cardinal
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Pietro Carnesecchi
Italian humanist and religious reformer
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Ambrose Of Camaldoli
Italian translator
Edith Stein
Edith Stein
German nun
Sister Wendy Beckett
Sister Wendy Beckett
British nun and art critic
Absalon
Absalon
Danish archbishop
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Eskil
Danish archbishop
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Christiern Pedersen
Danish humanist
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Henri Arnauld
French bishop