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Born c.808 • Swabia • Germany
Died August 18, 849 • Reichenau • Germany
Notable Works “Visio Wettini”
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
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Godfrey of Saint-Victor
French philosopher
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
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Magnus Felix Ennodius
Italian bishop and writer
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Nicetas of Remesiana
bishop, theologian, and composer
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Theodulf of Orléans
bishop and poet
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St. Hilary of Poitiers
bishop of Poitiers
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Alain de Lille
French theologian
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Ion of Chios
Greek poet
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English 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
Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Horace
Roman poet
Marble bust of Marcus Tullius Cicero, shown with short hair and draped clothing, displayed against a black background.
Cicero
Roman statesman, scholar, and writer
Ancient Roman mosaic showing the poet Virgil seated and writing, flanked by the muses Clio and Melpomene, displayed in a decorative border.
Virgil
Roman poet
Ovid
Ovid
Roman poet
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian poet and scholar
Catullus, bust in Sirmione, Italy.
Catullus
Roman poet
St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American author

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