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Aulus Cornelius Celsus
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Flourished 1 - 100 • Rome • Italy
Notable Works “De medicina”
Subjects Of Study inflammation • disinfectant
Lucius Apuleius
Roman philosopher and scholar
Marcus Terentius Varro
Roman author
Cassiodorus
historian, statesman, and monk
Lucius Accius
Roman poet
Petrarch
Petrarch
Italian poet
Adso of Montier-en-Der
Benedictine monk and abbot
Godfrey of Saint-Victor
French philosopher
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
Richard Bentley, detail of an oil painting by James Thornhill, 1710; in Trinity College, Cambridge.
Richard Bentley
British scholar
George Buchanan, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist after a portrait by Arnold Bronkhorst, 1581; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Buchanan
Scottish writer and educator
Julius Caesar Scaliger
French scholar
Theodulf of Orléans
bishop and poet
Justus Lipsius, oil painting by an unknown artist, 1585; in the Musee Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp
Justus Lipsius
Belgian scholar
Pontano, Giovanni
Giovanni Pontano
Italian writer
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Horace
Roman poet
Cicero
Cicero
Roman statesman, scholar, and writer
mosaic of Virgil with Clio and Melpomene
Virgil
Roman poet
Tacitus
Tacitus
Roman historian
Catullus, bust in Sirmione, Italy.
Catullus
Roman poet

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