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31John Quincy Adams — Este artículo trata sobre 6º presidente estadounidense. Para otros usos de este término, véase John Adams (desambiguación). John Quincy Adams …
32Romance languages — romance1 (def. 8). [1770 80] * * * Group of related languages derived from Latin, with nearly 920 million native speakers. The major Romance languages French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian are national languages. French is probably… …
33Cicero, Marcus Tullius — born 106 BC, Arpinum, Latium died Dec. 7, 43 BC, Formiae Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer. Born to a wealthy family, he quickly established a brilliant career in law and plunged into politics, then rife with factionalism and… …
34Longueil, Christophe de — (ca. 1488 1522) French Netherlandish humanist, born at Mechelen in Brabant to a local woman and an aristocratic French bishop who was French ambassador to the Netherlands. In 1497 his father sent him to study at the University of Paris. After… …
35Baldassare Castiglione — Baldassare Castiglione. Portrait by Raphael Born December 6, 1478(1478 12 06) near Casatico, which is near …
36Quintilian — Not to be confused with Quintillion. Quintilian s statue in Calahorra, La Rioja, Spain Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (ca. 35 – ca. 100) was a Roman rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in …
37Étienne Dolet — (August 3, 1509 ndash; August 3, 1546) was a French scholar, translator and printer.He was born at Orléans. A doubtful tradition makes him the illegitimate son of Francis I; but it is evident that he was at least connected with some family of… …
38Paulus Manutius — (1512 1574) was a Venetian printer with a humanist education, the third son of the famous printer Aldus Manutius and his wife Maria Torresano. Aldus died when the boy was two, and his grandfather and two uncles, the Asolani, carried on the Aldine …
39Pietro Bembo — Pietro Bembo, Gemälde von Tizian, 1539/40, National Gallery of Art, Washington Pietro Bembo (* 20. Mai 1470 in Venedig; † 18. Januar 1547 in Rom) war ein italienischer humanistischer Gelehrter und Kardinal. Er war für seine meis …
40humanism — /hyooh meuh niz euhm/ or, often, /yooh /, n. 1. any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate. 2. devotion to or study of the humanities. 3. (sometimes cap.) the studies, principles, or culture… …
