List of Renaissance humanists

This article contains a list of Renaissance humanists.

List

The careers of individual humanists throw light on the movement as a whole.

Juan Gines de Sepulveda (1494-1573) (Spanish)
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)
Antonio Beccadelli (1394–1471) (Italian)
George of Trebizond (1395–1486) (Greek)
Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459) (Italian)
Tommaso Parentucelli (Pope Nicholas V) (1391–1455) (Italian)
Francesco Filelfo (1398–1481) (Italian)
Carlo Marsuppini (1399–1453) (Italian)
Íñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de Santillana (1398–1458) (Spanish)
Theodorus Gaza (c.1400–1475) (Greek)
Bessarion (1403–1472) (Greek)
Gregory of Sanok (1403/07–1477) (Polish)
Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II) (1405–1464) (Italian)
Bartolomeo Facio (1410–1457) (Italian/Neapolitan)
Wessel Gansfort (1419-1489) (Frisian)
Bartolomeo Platina (1421–1481) (Italian/Roman)
Vespasiano da Bisticci (1421–1498) (Italian)
Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503) (Italian/Neapolitan)
Julius Pomponius Laetus (1428–1498) (Italian/Roman)
Niccolò Perotti (1429–1480) (Italian)
Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) (Italian/Florentine)
Janus Pannonius (1434–1472) (Hungarian/Croatian)
John Doget (c.1434–1501) (English)
Antonio Bonfini (1434–1503) (Italian)
Stefano Infessura (c.1435-c.1500) (Italian)
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436–1517) (Spanish)
Filippo Buonaccorsi (1437–1496) (Italian/ Tuscan)
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)
Aldus Manutius (1449–1515) (Italian/Venetian)
Yuriy Drohobych (1450-1494) (Ukrainian)
Marko Marulić (1450-1524) (Croatian/Venetian)
Marin Barleti (c.1450–c.1512/13) (Albanian/Venetian)
Johannes Stöffler (1452–1531) (German)
Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) (Italian/Florentine)
Johann Reuchlin (1455–1522) (German)
Paulus Aemilius Veronensis (1455–1529) (Italian/Venetian)
Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1455–1536) (French)
Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (1457–1526) (Italian)
Jacopo Sannazaro (1458–1530) (Italian)
Conrad Celtes (1459–1508) (German)
Johannes Trithemius (1462–1516) (German)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) (Italian)
Hector Boece (1465–1536) (Scottish)
Laurentius Corvinus (1465–1527) (Silesian)
Desiderius Erasmus (c.1466–1536) (Dutch)
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) (Italian/Florentine)
Aires de Figueiredo Barbosa (1470–1540) (Portuguese)
Janus Parrhasius (1470–1522) (Italian)
Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) (Italian)
Polydore Vergil (1470–1555) (Italian/English)
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)
Beatus Rhenanus (1485–1547) (German)
Pieter Gillis (1486–1533) (Flemish)
Sigismund von Herberstein (1486–1566) (Austrian/Slovene)
Macropedius (1487–1558) (Dutch)
Pietro Alcionio (c.1487–1527) (Italian)
William Farel (1489–1565) (French/Swiss)
Alfonso de Valdés (1490–1532) (Spanish)
Joan Boscà i Almogàver (c.1490?–1542) (Hispanic-Catalan)
Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) (Italian/Tuscan)
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)
Alphonsus Ciacconius (1540–1599) (Spanish)
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.

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