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Engraved portrait of Marsilio Ficino wearing a cap and cloak, shown in three-quarter view looking over his shoulder, with detailed lines and shading.

Portrait of Niccolo Machiavelli by Santi di Tito shows Machiavelli in black and red robes, holding a document, against a plain background.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Hans Holbein the Younger: Erasmus

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Barockscholastik Western philosophy philosophy Platonism Aristotelianism Atomism Scholasticism Skepticism Stoicism Epicureanism Emanationism Latin Averroism Ethics

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