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Born February 10, 1499 • Switzerland • (Birthday in 2 days)
Died January 26, 1582 (aged 82) • Basel • Switzerland
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John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
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Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Andrea Palladio: Villa Rotonda
Andrea Palladio
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François Rabelais
François Rabelais
French author
Hans Holbein the Younger: Sir Thomas More
Thomas More
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Petrarch
Petrarch
Italian poet
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian poet and scholar
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and author
Masaccio
Italian painter
Philipp Melanchthon
Philipp Melanchthon
German theologian
Bosio, Jean-Baptiste-François: Portrait of Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
French philosopher and humanist
Lorenzo Valla
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Guicciardini, Francesco
Francesco Guicciardini
Italian historian and statesman
Montúfar, Antonio: Saint Francis of Assisi Appearing Before Pope Nicholas V, with Donors
Nicholas V
pope
Pius II
Pius II
pope
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
Raphael: portrait of Baldassare Castiglione
Baldassare Castiglione
Italian author