... , Michel de Montaigne, Petrarch, Baldassare Castiglione, Coluccio Salutati, Francois Rabelais. Andrea Alciato was a jurist in France in the 1500s, who was very smart and wrote a lot of short, Latin essays. Ludovico Ariosto was a poet in Italy, who wrote Orlando Furioso, an epic poem like the Odyssey. Leonardo Bruni was a writer as well as a humanist, he lived in Florence, and he was a chancellor. Giovanni ... Boccaccio was born in Paris, France, a great desiple of Petrarch, a scholar, and turned to Christianity. Erasmus was born as Geert Geertson (wikipedia.org) in the Netherlands; later...

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