Matthias Flacius (Matthias Flacius Illyricus (, 1520-1575) hailed from Labin in Istria, a humanist center home (along with Koper and Piran to many Croatian Protestants.
Franciscus Patricius (, 1529-1597), from Cres, studied mostly in Padua; although the city was a center of Aristotelianism, he was inclined toward Platonism.