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Born c.1140 • Hereford? • England
Died c.1209
Notable Works “Courtiers’ Trifles”
Richard Bentley, detail of an oil painting by James Thornhill, 1710; in Trinity College, Cambridge.
Richard Bentley
British scholar
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John Alcock
English bishop and statesman
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Thomas May
English scholar
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William Alabaster
English scholar
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John of Garland
English grammarian and poet
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Richard Brathwaite
English poet and writer
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
Italian Christian theologian and philosopher
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
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
Tacitus
Tacitus
Roman historian
Catullus, bust in Sirmione, Italy.
Catullus
Roman poet
Livy
Livy
Roman historian
Oil portrait of Hugo de Groot, also known as Hugo Grotius, by the workshop of Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, showing him with a ruffled white collar and dark clothing.
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
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Sextus Propertius
Roman poet
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Plautus
Roman dramatist
Lucretius
Lucretius
Latin poet and philosopher