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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
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Petrarch
thumb|right|upright|Santa Maria della Pieve in Arezzo thumb|right|upright|La Casa del Petrarca (birthplace) at Vicolo dell'Orto, 28 in Arezzo
Giovanni Boccaccio thumbnail
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian author and poet (1313–1375)
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Ludovico Ariosto
Italian poet (1474–1533)
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Pius II
pope of the Catholic Church from 1458 to 1464 (1405–1464)
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Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
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Lorenzo de' Medici
Italian politician, literary man and humanist
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Nicholas V
pope of the Catholic Church from 1447 to 1455
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Italian Renaissance philosopher (1463–1494)
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Marsilio Ficino
Italian philosopher and Catholic priest (1433–1499)
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Baldassarre Castiglione
Italian Renaissance author (1478-1529)
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Lorenzo Valla
Italian Renaissance humanist (c. 1407–1457)
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Pietro Aretino
Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer (1492-1556)
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Aldus Manutius
Italian printer and humanist (1449-1515)
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Leonardo Bruni
Italian humanist historian (c. 1370–1444)
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Poggio Bracciolini
Italian scholar, writer and humanist (1380–1459)
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Agnolo Poliziano
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
Julius Caesar Scaliger
Italian scholar, physician and philosopher (1484-1558)
Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli
15th-century Italian humanist and antiquarian
Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli
Florentine astronomer
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Flavio Biondo
historian from Italy
Gian Giorgio Trissino
Italian Renaissance humanist
Vittorino da Feltre
Italian Renaissance-Humanist and teacher
Pietro Andrea Mattioli
Italian scientist (1501–1578)
Cino da Pistoia
Italian Renaissance jurist and poet (1270–1336)
Fausto Sozzini
Italian theologian
Andrea Alciato
Italian jurist and writer (1492–1550)
Florentine Camerata
Group of humanists
Laura Cereta
Italian writer
Francesco Filelfo
Italian Renaissance humanist (1398–1481)
Polydore Vergil
Italian-English scholar (1470–1555)
Guarino da Verona
Italian humanist
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Bartolomeo Platina
Italian humanist writer and gastronomist (1421–1481)
Cristoforo Landino
humanist, philosopher and writer from Italy
Federico Commandino
Italian mathematician (1509-1575)
Filippo Buonaccorsi
Italian Renaissance humanist
Olympia Fulvia Morata
Italian classical scholar
Barlaam of Seminara
Italian theologian
Ambrose Traversari
Italian monk and theologian (1386–1439)
Franchinus Gaffurius
Italian music theorist and composer (1451–1522)
Lorenzo Campeggio
Italian cardinal and politician
Isotta Nogarola
Italian writer
Jacopo Sadoleto
Catholic cardinal (1477-1547)
Iovianus Pontanus
Italian poet (1426-1503)
Niccolò Albergati
Catholic cardinal
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Niccolò de' Niccoli
Italian humanist (1364-1437)
Bartolomeo Montagna
Italian painter (1450-1523)
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Annius of Viterbo
Italian friar, scholar, historian and forger (1437–1502)
Marco Girolamo Vida
Italian bishop
Cassandra Fedele
Italian author
Antonio Beccadelli
Italian poet (1394-1471)
Francesco Barozzi
Italian mathematician (1537-1604)
Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder
Italian humanist scholar (1370-1444)
Julius Pomponius Laetus
Italian Renaissance humanist
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Antonio Bonfini
Italian writer and historian
Marcus Antonius Coccius Sabellicus
Italian historian
Alessandro Piccolomini
Italian writer and philosopher, titular archbishop of Patrae
Paulus Manutius
Italian printer (1512-1574)
Matteo Palmieri
Italian humanist (1406-1475)
Giovanni Aurispa
Italian priest and classical scholar