Girolamo Aleandro
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Hieronymus Aleander was a Venetian humanist, linguist, and cardinal.
Portret van Girolamo Aleandro, aartsbisschop van Brindisi, RP P OB 36.689
Erasmus
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Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch humanist, theologian, and philosopher. He was, through his writings and translations, o
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…Treviso, part of the Republic of Venice. The son of a doctor, he studied medicine, philology, and theology in Padua. In Venice, he became acquainted with Erasmus and Aldus Manutius, and at an early age was reputed one of the most learned men of the time, with a knowledge of Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Chaldaean…
Erasmus, in a 1523 portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger
Statue of Erasmus in Rotterdam. Gilded bronze statue by Hendrick de Keyser (1622), replacing a stone (1557), and a wooden (1549).
Hieronymous Bosch, Temptation of St Anthony, triptych (c. 1501), painted in 's-Hertogenbosch, later owned by his friend Damião de Gois
Bust by Hildo Krop (1950) in Gouda, where Erasmus spent his youth