15th-century translators

Italian philosopher and Catholic priest (1433–1499)

thumb|Poliziano and Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours|Giuliano de' Medici, from a fresco painted by Renaissance artist [[Domenico Ghirlandaio in the Sassetti Chapel, Santa Trinita, Florence ]] Agnolo (or Angelo) Ambrogini (; 14 July 1454 – 24 September 1494), commonly known as Angelo Poliziano () or simply Poliziano, anglicized as Politian, was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance. His scholarship was instrumental in the divergence of Renaissance (or Humanist) Latin from medieval norms and for developments in philology. His nickname Poliziano, by which he

Byzantine Greek scholar, diplomat, and professor (c. 1350–1415)

Greek Renaissance humanist scholar

Italian humanist

Ming dynasty translator, voyager and writer

Scottish princess; fourth daughter sixth child of James I of Scotland and Joan Beaufort

Italian priest and classical scholar

German countess and pioneer of the prose novel

Ming dynasty explorer and writer

Czech writer and medieval chronicler

Italian scholar and humanist (c. 1360 – 1411)

Ming dynasty author, advisor, secretary, explorer

Burgundian writer and translator (1401-1452)

German physician

Venetian printer and publisher