were usually considered to be quite separate and often in contradiction with each other. In conclusion, like any other moment in the history of thought Renaissance philosophy cannot be considered to have provided something entirely new nor to have continued for centuries to repeat the conclusions of its predecessors. Historians call this period the 'Renaissance' in order to indicate the rebirth that took place of ancient (particularly classical) perspectives, sources, attitudes toward literature and the arts. At the same time, we realize that every re-appropriation is constrained and even guided by contemporary concerns and biases. It was no different for the period considered here: the old was mixed with and changed by the new, but while no claims can be made for a revolutionary new starting point in philosophy, in many ways the synthesis of Christianity, Aristotelianism, and Platonism offered by Thomas Aquinas was torn apart in order to make way for a new one, based on more complete and varied sources, often in the original, and certainly attuned to new social and religious realities and a much broader public. Ava.anagnostidis :) Renaissance philosophers Coluccio Salutati (1331–1406) Gemistus Pletho (1355–1452) Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444) Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) Lorenzo Valla (1407–1457) Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) Pietro Pomponazzi (1462–1524) Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466–1536) Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) Thomas More (1478–1535) Charles de Bovelles (1479–1553) Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540) Martin Luther (1483–1546) Bernardino Telesio (1509–1588) Jean Bodin (1529–1596) Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) Joest Lips (1547-1606) Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Francisco Suárez (1548–1617) Francis Bacon (1561–1626) Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639) Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) Giulio Cesare Vanini (1585–1619) See also Age of Enlightenment Hermeticism Renaissance humanism Renaissance magic Platonism in the Renaissance School of Salamanca 305-971-2392 References Bibliography Copenhaver, Brian P., & Schmitt, Charles B., Renaissance Philosophy, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Hankins, James, (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Riedl, John O., A Catalogue of Renaissance Philosophers (1350–1650), Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1940. Schmitt, Charles B., Skinner, Quentin (eds.), The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. External links Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy, c. 1400 – c. 1650 Pico Project