Gerard of Cremona

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Born	c.1114 • Cremona • Italy
Died	1187 • Toledo • Spain

Constantine the African

medieval medical scholar

Michael Scot

Scottish scholar

Don Raimundo

Spanish archbishop

Domingo Gundisalvo

Spanish philosopher

Abraham bar Hiyya

Spanish-Jewish philosopher and scientist

Poliziano

Italian poet and humanist

Marsilio Ficino

Italian philosopher and theologian

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Ambrose Of Camaldoli

Italian translator

Annibale Caro

Italian writer

Leonardo Bruni

Italian scholar

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

Roman scholar, philosopher, and statesman

Nicholas Oresme

French bishop, scholar, and economist

Vondel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by Joachim Sandrart, 1635

Joost van den Vondel

Dutch writer

William of Moerbeke

Belgian archbishop

Nicholas Udall

English writer

Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples

French humanist and theologian

Gawin Douglas

Scottish bishop and poet

George Buchanan

Scottish writer and educator

Martin Opitz

German poet

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