Renaissance humanists[edit]
The careers of individual humanists throw light on the movement as a whole.
- Petrarch (1304–1375) (Italian)
- Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) (German)
- Simon Atumano (?-c.1380) (Greco-Turkish)
- Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) (Italian)
- 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)
- Peter, Duke of Coimbra (1392–1449) (Portuguese)
- Flavio Biondo (1392–1463) (Italian)
- Zachary Wolf Quenum (1396–1479) (English, Swiss, French)
- George of Trebizond (1395–1486) (Greek)
- Francesco Filelfo (1398–1481) (Italian)