List of Renaissance humanists
This is a list of Renaissance humanists.
Renaissance humanists
The careers of individual humanists throw light on the movement as a whole.
- Barlaam of Seminara (1290-1348) (Italian)
- Petrarch (1304–1375) (Italian)
- Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) (German)
- Simon Atumano (?-c.1380) (Greco-Turkish)
- Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) (Italian)
- Leontius Pilatus (?-1364/1366) (Italian)
- Francesc Eiximenis (c. 1330–1409) (Catalan)
- Coluccio Salutati (1331–1406) (Italian)
- Geert Groote (1340–1384) (Dutch)
- Bernat Metge (c.1340–1413) (Catalan)
- Manuel Chrysoloras (c.1355–1415) (Greek)
- George Gemistos Plethon (c.1355–1452/1454) (Greek)
- Niccolò de' Niccoli (1364–1437) (Italian)
- Leonardo Bruni (c.1369–1444) (Italian)
- Guarino da Verona (1370–1460) (Italian)
- Vittorino da Feltre (1378–1446) (Italian)
- Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459) (Italian)
- Cosimo de' Medici (1389–1464) (Italian)
- Peter, Duke of Coimbra (1392–1449) (Portuguese)
- Flavio Biondo (1392–1463) (Italian)
- Zachary Wolf Quenum (1396–1479) (English, Swiss, French)
- George of Trebizond (1395–1486) (Greek)
- Francesco Filelfo (1398–1481) (Italian)
- Íñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de Santillana (1398–1458) (Spanish)
- Theodorus Gaza (c.1400–1475) (Greek)
- Bessarion (1403–1472) (Greek)
- Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II) (1405–1464) (Italian)
- Wessel Gansfort (1419-1489) (Frisian)
- Niccolò Perotti (1429–1480) (Italian)
- Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) (Italian)
- John Doget (c.1434–1501) (English)
- Stefano Infessura (c.1435-c.1500) (Italian)
- Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436–1517) (Spanish)
- Giovanni Michele Alberto da Carrara (1438–1490) (Italian)
- Antonio de Nebrija (1441–1522) (Spanish)
- Rodolphus Agricola (1443–1485) (Frisian)
- Lucio Marineo Siculo (1444–1533) (Italian)
- Janus Lascaris (c.1445–1535) (Greek)
- William Grocyn (c.1446–1519) (English)
- Yuriy Drohobych (1450-1494) (Ukrainian)
- Johannes Stöffler (1452–1531) (German)
- Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) (Italian)
- Johann Reuchlin (1455–1522) (German)
- Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (1457–1526) (Italian)
- Jacopo Sannazaro (1458–1530) (Italian)
- Johannes Trithemius (1462–1516) (German)
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) (Italian)
- Hector Boece (1465–1536) (Scottish)
- Desiderius Erasmus (c.1466–1536) (Dutch)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) (Italian)
- Henrique Caiado (1470–1509) (Portuguese)
- Aires de Figueiredo Barbosa (1470–1540) (Portuguese)
- Janus Parrhasius (1470–1522) (Italian)
- Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) (Italian)
- Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533) (Italian)
- Thomas More (1478–1535) (English)
- Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529) (Italian)
- Raphael Sanzio (1483–1520) (Italian)
- Bartolomé de las Casas (1484–1566) (Spanish)
- Alphonsus Ciacconius (1540–1599) (Spanish)
- Pieter Gillis (1486–1533) (Flemish)
- Sigismund von Herberstein (1486–1566) (Austrian/Slovene)
- Macropedius (1487–1558) (Dutch)
- Pietro Alcionio (c.1487–1527) (Italian)
- Alfonso de Valdés (1490–1532) (Spanish)
- Joan Boscà i Almogàver (c.1490?–1542) (Hispanic-Catalan)
- Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) (Italian)
- Joan Lluís Vives i March (1492–1540) (Hispanic-Valencian)
- François Rabelais (c.1494–1553) (French)
- Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) (German)
- Pier Paolo Vergerio (1498–1565) (Italian)
- André de Resende (1498–1573) (Portuguese)
- Janus Cornarius (1500–1558) (German)
- Damião de Góis (1502–1574) (Portuguese)
- Giovanni della Casa (1503–1556) (Italian)
- George Buchanan (1506–1582) (Scottish)
- Arnoldus Arlenius (c.1510–1582) (Dutch)
- Michael Servetus (1511–1553) (Spanish)
- Francesco Robortello (1516–1567) (Italian)
- Johannes Goropius Becanus (1519–1572) (Dutch)
- Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563) (French)
- Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) (French)
- Justus Lipsius (1547–1606) (Flemish)
- Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) (Italian)
- Ignazio Cardini (1566–1602) (Corsican/Italian)
- Thomas Reid (?–1624) (Scottish)
- David Hume of Godscroft (1558–1629) (Scottish)
- Gian Vittorio Rossi (1577–1647) Italian poet, philologist, and historian.
- Giovan Battista Pigna (1530-1575) Italian poet, court historian, and author of military works.
See also
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