- 1265-1321: Dante Aligheri
- 1304-1374: Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)
- 1313-1375: Giovanni Boccaccio
- 1340-1400: Geoffrey Chaucer
- 1369-1444: Leonardo Bruni
- 1396: In Florence, Manuel Chrysoloras begins teaching Greek
- 1440: The Platonic Academy in Florence is founded
- 1463-1494: Pico della Mirandola
- 1465-1536: Erasmus of Rotterdam
- 1469-1527: Niccolo Machiavelli
- 1478-1535: Thomas More
- 1478: The Spanish Inquisition begins.
- 1488-1523: Ulrich von Hutten
- 1515: "Epistolae obscurorum virorum" ["Letters of Obscure Men"]
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