Renaissance Writers

Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499)

- Reviver of Neoplatonism, first to translate Plato to Latin
- Teacher of Poliziano and Pico della Mirandola
Matteo Maria Boiardo (1440-1494)
- Author of Orlando innamorato (1483, 1495)

Poliziano (1454-1494)
- Foremost humanist of his day
- Many students, including tutoring Medici’s children
Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)
- Author of the Oration on the Dignity of Man
- Proposed to defend 900 theses (1487), condemned by pope
- Friends with Poliziano, possibly poisoned together
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
- Orlando furioso (1516, 1532)