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Born c.363 • France
Died c.420
Notable Works “Chronica” • “Dialogi” • “Vita S. Martini”
Subjects Of Study history of early Christianity
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, woodcut, 1537.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Roman scholar, philosopher, and statesman
St. Ambrose
St. Ambrose
bishop of Milan
St. Athanasius
St. Athanasius
Egyptian theologian
Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco
Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini
Italian scholar
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Venantius Fortunatus
French poet and bishop
Saint Paulinus of Nola
Roman Catholic saint
Thomas May
English scholar
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Origen
Christian theologian
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
St. Ignatius of Antioch
Syrian bishop
Detail of a portrait thought to be of Christopher Marlowe, dated 1585, artist unknown; in the collection of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Christopher Marlowe
English writer
Domenico Ghirlandaio: St. Jerome in His Study
St. Jerome
Christian scholar
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
English dramatist
St. Clement of Alexandria
Christian theologian
Martial
Roman poet
St. Cyprian
Christian theologian and bishop [died 258]