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Born c.345 • Italy
Died 410 or 411 • Messina • Italy
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Novatian
antipope
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Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
French humanist and theologian
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John Scotus Erigena
Irish philosopher
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Lucius Livius Andronicus
Roman author
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, woodcut, 1537.
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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.
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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.
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Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
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George Of Trebizond
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Hieronymus Emser
German theologian
Ogilby, engraving by William Camden Edwards, 1820, after a drawing by J. Thurston
John Ogilby
British printer
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Ambrose Of Camaldoli
Italian translator
Chrysoloras
Manuel Chrysoloras
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Leonardo Bruni
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St. Paul the Apostle
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Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
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