Curated category
14th-century writers in Latin
- Dante AlighieriIn the year 1300, a man named Dante Alighieri claimed to have walked through Hell. He wrote that he was midway upon the journey of his life when this vision…
- John WycliffeJohn Wycliffe was born in the village of Hipswell, near Richmond in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England. Records suggest he was born in the mid-1320s…
- Giovanni BoccaccioGiovanni Boccaccio was born on the 16th of June 1313 in either Florence or a village near Certaldo. His father worked for the Compagnia dei Bardi bank and…
- Manuel ChrysolorasManuel Chrysoloras was born in Constantinople around the year 1350. He grew up within a distinguished Greek Orthodox family that valued classical learning.
- PetrarchFrancesco di Petracco entered the world on the 20th of July 1304 in the Tuscan city of Arezzo. His father Ser Petracco worked as a notary, and his mother was…
- John GowerJohn Gower lived from approximately 1330 until October 1408. Very few details exist about his birth or early family life.
- Coluccio SalutatiOn the 16th of February 1331, a boy named Coluccio Salutati entered the world in Stignano. This tiny commune sat near Buggiano within the province of Pistoia…