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Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469–1527)

Petrarch
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thumb|right|upright|La Casa del Petrarca (birthplace) at Vicolo dell'Orto, 28 in Arezzo
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian author and poet (1313–1375)
Ludovico Ariosto
Italian poet (1474–1533)
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Italian Renaissance philosopher (1463–1494)
Baldassarre Castiglione
Italian Renaissance author (1478-1529)
Lorenzo Valla
Italian Renaissance humanist (c. 1407–1457)

Francesco Guicciardini
Italian writer, historian and politician (1483-1540)
Leonardo Bruni
Italian humanist historian (c. 1370–1444)

Agnolo Poliziano
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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
Girolamo Fracastoro
Italian physician
Giambattista Basile
Italian writer (1583-1632)

Matteo Maria Boiardo
Italian writer

Vittoria Colonna
Italian poet and noble

Coluccio Salutati
Italian humanist

Giovanni Battista Guarini
Italian poet
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Moderata Fonte
Venetian poet
Isabella di Morra
Italian poet
Teofilo Folengo
Italian poet and writer
Gaspara Stampa
Italian poet (1523-1554)
Guarino da Verona
Italian humanist
Iovianus Pontanus
Italian poet (1426-1503)
Francesco Berni
Italian poet
Antonio Beccadelli
Italian poet (1394-1471)

Vespasiano I Gonzaga
Italian noble and diplomat (1531-1591)
Francesco Colonna
Italian priest, monk and writer (1433/34-1527)
Giannozzo Manetti
Italian politician and diplomat (1396–1459)
Alessandro Piccolomini
Italian writer and philosopher, titular archbishop of Patrae
Leontios Pilatus
Greek humanist
Antonio Francesco Grazzini
Italian writer, poet and playwright of XVI century
Scipione Ammirato
Italian historian (1531-1601)
Gasparinus de Bergamo
Italian Renaissance humanist
Laura Battiferri
Italian poet and writer
Luigi Cornaro
Italian philosopher
Francesco Vettori
Italian diplomat (1474-1540)
Francesco Barbaro
Italian politician, diplomat, and humanist from Venice (1390–1454)
Pietro Candido Decembrio
Italian writer and translator (1399-1477)
Battista Malatesta
Italian Renaissance poet (1384-1448)
Luigi Tansillo
Italian poet
Antonio Rocco
Italian writer and philosopher
Pandolfo Collenuccio
Italian poet, historian and humanist
Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol
Hebrew scholar and geographer
Alessandra Macinghi
15th-century Italian Renaissance writer
Andrea da Barberino
Italian writer
Bernardino Corio
Italian historian
Giovanni Maria Cecchi
Italian poet, playwright, writer and notary
Gian Vittorio Rossi
Italian philologist and writer
Francesco Maria Molza
Italian poet
Giulio Cesare Capaccio
Italian historian
Cesare Caporali
Italian poet
Giovanni Guidiccioni
Italian poet
Giacomo da Scarperia
Italian scholar and humanist (c. 1360 – 1411)
Jacopo Passavanti
Italian writer and architect
Tommaso Garzoni
Italian writer (1549-1589)
Ludovico Maria Sinistrari
Italian priest and writer
Laura Terracina
Italian poet
Giason Denores
Cypriot-Italian scholar
Giacinto Andrea Cicognini
Italian writer