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Born c.1200 • Italy
Died Before 1269
Notable Works “L’Ensenhamen d’onor”
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Bertran De Born
French soldier and troubadour
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Friedrich Christian Diez
German scholar
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Marcabru
Gascon poet-musician
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Arnaut Daniel
Provençal poet and troubadour
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Arnaut de Mareuil
Perigordian troubadour
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Folquet De Marseille
Provençal troubadour and clergyman
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William IX
duke of Aquitaine and Gascony
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Bernard de Ventadour
French troubadour
Frédéric Mistral, etching, 1864
Frédéric Mistral
French poet
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Joseph Roumanille
French poet
Jasmin, detail of a lithograph by the Becquet brothers
Jacques Jasmin
French poet
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Pey de Garros
French poet
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Italian artist
Dante
Dante
Italian poet
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
Italian Christian theologian and philosopher
Engraving of Petrarch wearing a laurel wreath and a robe, holding a closed book in his left hand.
Petrarch
Italian poet
Ovid
Ovid
Roman poet
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian poet and scholar
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Pope Leo XIII seated in formal papal robes and cape, wearing a cross necklace, facing forward, in a black and white portrait from 1878.
Leo XIII
pope

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