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Also Known As Giulio Pomponio Leto
Born 1428 • Italy
Died 1497 (aged 69) • Rome • Italy
Subjects Of Study Roman religion
Masaccio
Italian painter
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman and writer
Andrea Palladio: Villa Rotonda
Andrea Palladio
Italian architect
Petrarch
Petrarch
Italian poet
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian poet and scholar
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and author
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
Raphael: portrait of Baldassare Castiglione
Baldassare Castiglione
Italian author
Tommaso Campanella
Italian philosopher and poet
Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco
Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini
Italian scholar
Flavio Biondo
Italian historian
Coluccio Salutati
Florentine chancellor
Pietro Pomponazzi
Italian philosopher
Aleandro, detail of an engraving by an unknown artist
Girolamo Aleandro
Italian cardinal
Pontano, Giovanni
Giovanni Pontano
Italian writer
Fra Giovanni Giocondo
Italian architect