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Also Known As Angelo Ambrogini
Born July 14, 1454 • Montepulciano • Italy
Died September 28, 1494 or September 29, 1494 • Florence • Italy
Notable Works “Ambra” • “In puellam suam” • “In violas” • “Lalagen, In” • “Manto” • “Miscellanea” • “Nutricia” • “Orfeo” • “Pactianae coniurationis commentarium” • “Rusticus” • “Stanze per la giostra” • “Sylva in scabiem”
Movement / Style Renaissance
Subjects Of Study Ancient Greek literature • Latin literature
F.W. Ritschl, engraving
F.W. Ritschl
German scholar
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Engraving of Petrarch wearing a laurel wreath and a robe, holding a closed book in his left hand.
Petrarch
Italian poet
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German 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
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Maximus Planudes
Byzantine scholar and theologian
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Lucius Livius Andronicus
Roman author
Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dutch author
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Florent Chrestien
French author
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
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
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Julius Caesar Scaliger
French scholar
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Attilio Bertolucci
Italian poet, literary critic and translator
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Melchiorre Cesarotti
Italian author
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Italian artist
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
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Martial
Roman poet
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Joost van den Vondel
Joost van den Vondel
Dutch writer
Richard Bentley, detail of an oil painting by James Thornhill, 1710; in Trinity College, Cambridge.
Richard Bentley
British scholar

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