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Born c.345 • Italy
Died 410 or 411 • Messina • Italy
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
French humanist and theologian
Maximus Planudes
Byzantine scholar and theologian
John Scotus Erigena
Irish philosopher
Lucius Livius Andronicus
Roman author
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, woodcut, 1537.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Roman scholar, philosopher, and statesman
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino
Italian philosopher and theologian
Maximus The Greek
Greek Orthodox monk and scholar
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
George Of Trebizond
Byzantine humanist
Hieronymus Emser
German theologian
Ogilby, engraving by William Camden Edwards, 1820, after a drawing by J. Thurston
John Ogilby
British printer
Ambrose Of Camaldoli
Italian translator
Chrysoloras
Manuel Chrysoloras
Greek scholar
Leonardo Bruni
Italian scholar
Domenico Ghirlandaio: St. Jerome in His Study
St. Jerome
Christian scholar
Caravaggio: The Conversion of St. Paul (second version)
St. Paul the Apostle
Christian Apostle
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
Saint Hippolytus of Rome
antipope
Novatian
antipope