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Historians of the Italian Renaissance listed under "Renaissance" Piers Langtoft (died c. 1307) Jean de Joinville (1224–1319) Giovanni Villani (1276–1348), Italian chronicler from Florence who wrote the Nuova Cronica; John of Küküllő (1320–1393) John Clyn (fl. 1333–1349), Irish historian; Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin (died 1372), Irish ...
John Florio was born in London in 1552 [1] or 1553 [2] [3] [4] but he grew up and lived in continental Europe until the age of 19. The only portrait of Florio we have, the frontispiece to the New World of Words of 1611, presents him as "Italus ore, Anglus pector" [15] ("Italian in mouth, English in chest"); Manfred Pfister [] glosses this as, "in his native language an Italian, in his heart an ...
John Scotus Eriugena, [a] also known as Johannes Scotus Erigena, [b] John the Scot or John the Irish-born [5] (c. 800 – c. 877), [6] was an Irish Neoplatonist philosopher, theologian and poet of the Early Middle Ages. Bertrand Russell dubbed him "the most astonishing person of the ninth century". [7]
Ruskin controversially argued that modern landscape painters—and in particular Turner—were superior to the so-called "Old Masters" of the post-Renaissance period. Ruskin maintained that, unlike Turner, Old Masters such as Gaspard Dughet (Gaspar Poussin), Claude , and Salvator Rosa favoured pictorial convention, and not "truth to nature".
John Donne (/ d ʌ n / DUN; 1571 or 1572 [a] – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. [2]
John Calvin (/ ˈ k æ l v ɪ n /; [1] Middle French: Jehan Cauvin; French: Jean Calvin [ʒɑ̃ kalvɛ̃]; 10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation.
Sir John Rigby Hale FBA (17 September 1923 – 12 August 1999) was a British historian and translator, best known for his Renaissance studies. Biography [ edit ]