Alphabetical index of libraries

Private philosophical libraries in the modern and contemporary age

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Humanist and Renaissance Libraries

Explore the collections of some of the leading figures and interpreters of humanist and Renaissance culture.

Francesco Petrarca
Arezzo 1304 - Arquà 1374
Petrarch, by J. Addington Symonds, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica; D. Ferraro, Petrarca, Francesco, in Il Contributo italiano alla storia del Pensiero -…
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Mirandola 1463 - Firenze 1494
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Nicola Cusano
Bernkastel-Kues 1401 - Todi 1464
Nikolaus Krebs (or Kryffs) von Kues, in latin Nicolaus Cusanus or Nicolaus de Cusa. German theologian, philosopher, and scientist, in addition to ambassador of…
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Erasmus Desiderius Roterodamus (Geert Geertsz)
Rotterdam 1466 - Basel 1536
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Francesco Patrizi
Cherso 1529 - Roma 1597
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Château de Montaigne (Dordogne) 1533 - Château de Montaigne (Dordogne) 1592
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Eugenio Garin
Rieti 1909 - Firenze 2004
Philosopher and historian of Italian philosophy. Full professor of history of philosophy at the University of Florence (1949), from 1974 to 1984 he taught at…
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Paul Oskar Kristeller
Berlin 1905 - New York 1999
After completing his university studies in Heidelberg in 1928, he undertook postgraduate studies in Berlin and Freiburg, and then was the German language…
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