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Born December 24, 1508 • Florence • Italy
Died October 1, 1567 (aged 58) • Rome • Italy
Subjects Of Study Inner Light • justification
Role In Reformation
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Ambrose Of Camaldoli
Italian translator
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
Aleandro, detail of an engraving by an unknown artist
Girolamo Aleandro
Italian cardinal
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Pietro Paulo Vergerio
Italian bishop
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
German religious leader
John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
Philipp Melanchthon
Philipp Melanchthon
German theologian
Thomas Müntzer
Thomas Müntzer
German religious reformer
John Oecolampadius
Johann Oecolampadius
German humanist
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Georg Spalatin
Bavarian humanist
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Wolfgang Fabricius Capito
German religious reformer
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Christiern Pedersen
Danish humanist
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Joachim Vadianus
Swiss humanist
Portrait of Niccolo Machiavelli by Santi di Tito shows Machiavelli in black and red robes, holding a document, against a plain background.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman and writer
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
Andrea Palladio: Villa Rotonda
Andrea Palladio
Italian architect
Engraving of Petrarch wearing a laurel wreath and a robe, holding a closed book in his left hand.
Petrarch
Italian poet
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian poet and scholar