Italian painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, best known for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing, and the basis for biographies of several Renaissance artists, including Leonardo da Vinci
French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar
One of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance
Italian diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Renaissance
Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author.Castiglione wrote Il Cortegiano or The Book of the Courtier, a courtesy book dealing with questions of the etiquette and morality of the courtier
Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world’s pre-eminent novelists
English writer and fellow of Oxford University, best known for his encyclopedic book The Anatomy of Melancholy
