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Ezra Pound

American poet

Domenico Ghirlandaio

Poliziano

Italian poet and humanist

Theodore Metochites

Byzantine statesman

Maximus Planudes

Byzantine scholar and theologian

Bessarion

Byzantine theologian

Diogenes Laërtius

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Bernard de Montfaucon

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