List of Renaissance humanists explained

The following is a list of Renaissance humanists, individuals whose careers threw light on the movement as a whole.

List

• Barlaam of Seminara (c. 1290-1348) (Italian)
• Leontius Pilatus (?-1364/1366) (Greek)
• Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) (Italian)
• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) (Italian)
• Simon Atumano (?-c.1380) (Greco-Turkish)
• Francesc Eiximenis (c. 1330–1409) (Catalan)
• Coluccio Salutati (1331–1406) (Italian)
• Geert Groote (1340–1384) (Dutch)
• Bernat Metge (c.1340–1413) (Catalan)
• Manuel Chrysoloras (c.1355–1415) (Greek)
• George Gemistos Plethon (c.1355–1452/1454) (Greek)
• Niccolò de' Niccoli (1364–1437) (Italian)
• Leonardo Bruni (c.1369–1444) (Italian)
• Guarino da Verona (1370–1460) (Italian)
• Vittorino da Feltre (1378–1446) (Italian)
• Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459) (Italian)
• Cosimo de' Medici (1389–1464) (Italian)
• Tommaso Parentucelli (Pope Nicholas V) (1391–1455) (Italian)
• Peter, Duke of Coimbra (1392–1449) (Portuguese)
• Flavio Biondo (1392–1463) (Italian)
• Antonio Beccadelli (1394–1471) (Italian)
• George of Trebizond (1395–1486) (Greek)
• Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459) (Italian)
• Francesco Filelfo (1398–1481) (Italian)
• Carlo Marsuppini (1399–1453) (Italian)
• Íñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de Santillana (1398–1458) (Castilian)
• Gjon Gazulli (1400–1465) (Albanian)
• Theodorus Gaza (c.1400–1475) (Greek)
• Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1469) (German)
• Bessarion (1403–1472) (Greek)
• Gregory of Sanok (1403/07–1477) (Polish)
• Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II) (1405–1464) (Italian)
• John Vitéz (1408–1472) (Croatian/Hungarian)
• Bartolomeo Facio (1410–1457) (Italian/Neapolitan)
• Isotta Nogarola (1418-1466) (Italian)
• Wessel Gansfort (1419-1489) (Frisian)
• Bartolomeo Platina (1421–1481) (Italian/Roman)
• Vespasiano da Bisticci (1421–1498) (Italian)
• Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503) (Italian/Neapolitan)
• Julius Pomponius Laetus (1428–1498) (Italian/Roman)
• Niccolò Perotti (1429–1480) (Italian)
• Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) (Italian/Florentine)
• Janus Pannonius (1434–1472) (Hungarian/Croatian)
• John Doget (c.1434–1501) (English)
• Antonio Bonfini (1434–1503) (Italian)
• Stefano Infessura (c.1435-c.1500) (Italian)
• Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436–1517) (Spanish)
• Filippo Buonaccorsi (1437–1496) (Italian/ Tuscan)
• Giovanni Michele Alberto da Carrara (1438–1490) (Italian)
• Antonio de Nebrija (1441–1522) (Spanish)
• Martin Segon (?–1482/85) (Serbian)
• Rodolphus Agricola (1443–1485) (Frisian)
• Lucio Marineo Siculo (1444–1533) (Italian)
• Janus Lascaris (c.1445–1535) (Greek)
• Juraj Šižgorić (1445–1509) (Croatian)
• William Grocyn (c.1446–1519) (English)
• Aldus Manutius (1449–1515) (Italian/Venetian)
• Yuriy Drohobych (1450-1494) (Ukrainian)
• Marko Marulić (1450-1524) (Croatian)
• Marin Barleti (c.1450–c.1512/13) (Albanian/Venetian)
• Johannes Stöffler (1452–1531) (German)
• Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) (Italian/Florentine)
• Johann Reuchlin (1455–1522) (German)
• Paulus Aemilius Veronensis (1455–1529) (Italian/Venetian)
• Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1455–1536) (French)
• Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus (1456–1531) (Albanian or Greek)
• Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (1457–1526) (Italian)
• Jacopo Sannazaro (1458–1530) (Italian)
• Conrad Celtes (1459–1508) (German)
• Džore Držić (1461–1501) (Croatian)
• Johannes Trithemius (1462–1516) (German)
• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) (Italian)
• Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558) (Italian)
• Hector Boece (1465–1536) (Scottish)
• Laurentius Corvinus (1465–1527) (Silesian)
• Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) (Dutch)
• Marinus Becichemus Scodrensis (1468–1526) (Albanian)
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) (Italian/Florentine)
• Laura Cereta (1469-1499) (Italian)
• Aires de Figueiredo Barbosa (1470–1540) (Portuguese)
• Janus Parrhasius (1470–1522) (Italian)
• Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) (Italian)
• Polydore Vergil (1470–1555) (Italian/English)
• Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533) (Italian)
• Alessandra Scala (1475-1506)(Italian)
• Thomas More (1478–1535) (English)
• Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529) (Italian)
• Raphael Sanzio (1483–1520) (Italian)
• Bartolomé de las Casas (1484–1566) (Spanish)
• Beatus Rhenanus (1485–1547) (German)
• Pieter Gillis (1486–1533) (Flemish)
• Sigismund von Herberstein (1486–1566) (Austrian/Slovene)
• Macropedius (1487–1558) (Dutch)
• Pietro Alcionio (c.1487–1527) (Italian)
• William Farel (1489–1565) (French/Swiss)
• Alfonso de Valdés (1490–1532) (Spanish)
• Joan Boscà i Almogàver (c.1490?–1542) (Catalan)
• Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) (Italian/Tuscan)
• Joan Lluís Vives i March (1492–1540) (Valencian)
• François Rabelais (c.1494–1553) (French)
• Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (1494-1573) (Spanish)
• Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) (German)
• Pier Paolo Vergerio (1498–1565) (Italian)
• André de Resende (1498–1573) (Portuguese)
• Janus Cornarius (1500–1558) (German)
• Damião de Góis (1502–1574) (Portuguese)
• Giovanni della Casa (1503–1556) (Italian)
• George Buchanan (1506–1582) (Scottish)
• Arnoldus Arlenius (c.1510–1582) (Dutch)
• Michael Servetus (1511–1553) (Spanish)
• Francesco Robortello (1516–1567) (Italian)
• Johannes Goropius Becanus (1519–1572) (Dutch)
• Giovanni Valentino Gentile (c. 1520-1566) (Italian)
• Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563) (French)
• Giovan Battista Pigna (1530-1575) Italian poet, court historian, and author of military works
• Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) (French)
• Paul Skalich (1534–1573) (Croatian)
• Alphonsus Ciacconius (1540–1599) (Spanish)
• Justus Lipsius (1547–1606) (Flemish)
• Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) (Italian)
• Fausto Veranzio (1551–1617) (Croatian)
• Ignazio Cardini (1566–1602) (Corsican/Italian)
• Thomas Reid (?–1624) (Scottish)
• David Hume of Godscroft (1558–1629) (Scottish)
• Gian Vittorio Rossi (1577–1647) Italian poet, philologist, and historian.

See also

• List of Renaissance commentators on Aristotle
• Greek scholars in the Renaissance