Book and manuscript collectors

Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)

Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)

Italian philosopher and Catholic priest (1433–1499)

First ruler of the Medici political dynasty (1389–1464)

Italian scholar, writer and humanist (1380–1459)

Canadian physician and co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital (1849–1919)

condottiere of the Italian Renaissance, and lord of Urbino

Soviet poet (1883–1945)

Greek film director and screenwriter (1941–2005)

Belgian composer (1784-1871)

Icelandic scholar and manuscript collector (1663-1730)

Greek bishop

chess player

Swedish entomologist, industrialist and civil servant (1720-1778)

Serbian jurist and sociologist (1834–1908)

Italian humanist (1364-1437)

British philanthropist and book collector (1932–2003)

Swiss physicist (1925-2014)

Karaite scholar (1786–1874)

film, theatre, and television director, screenwriter, producer and actor (1927–2022)

Roman Catholic cardinal

Italian Renaissance humanist (1535-1601)

Serbian writer (1821-1882)

Businessman and politician (1909-2004)

politician and collector of books from ancient Athens

Croatian linguist (1835-1914)

natural son of Philip III, Duke of Burgundy and Jeanne de Presle (1421-1504)

Swiss academic (1899-1971)

Russian art historian (1862–1936)

Egyptian philologist and civil servant (1867–1934)

Italian writer

Dutch economist (1934-2020)

Dutch writer and television presenter (1948–2002)

Austrian-born American rare book dealer (1907-1988)

French poet

Archbishop of Riga (1270–1340)

English scholar and critic

Swedish manuscript collector (1875–1955)

Italian Music collector and Bibliographer (1929-2025)

Italian man of religion, writer and humanist

Serbian Roman Catholic priest from Dubrovnik

Italian philosopher

Moldovan writer (1901–1937)

Serbian writer

writer and politician

Uruguayan politician, writer, diplomat and historian

Finnish book collector and donator

Roman Catholic abbot