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Born 1490? • Cuenca • Spain
Died October 3, 1532? • Vienna
Notable Works “Diálogo de Mercurio y Carón” • “Diálogo de las cosas ocurridas en Romá”
Notable Family Members brother Juan de Valdés
Role In Diet of Worms
Juan Luis Vives, engraving by Jean-Jacques Boissard from Icones quinquaginta, 1597
Juan Luis Vives
Spanish humanist
Iñigo López de Mendoza, marquis de Santillana
Spanish poet
Juan de Valdés
Spanish author
John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman and writer
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Andrea Palladio: Villa Rotonda
Andrea Palladio
Italian architect
François Rabelais
François Rabelais
French author
Hans Holbein the Younger: Sir Thomas More
Thomas More
English humanist and statesman
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
Italian humanist
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