Marino Becichemo
(Shkoder, Albania 1468 – 1526 Padua, Italy) Albanian humanist, orator, and chronicler Son of the secretary of the Republic of Venice, Marino and Bianca Pagnano of the Milanese merchant family. …
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Giovanni Antonio Capodistria
(Corfu, Venetian Ionian Islands 1776 – Nafplion, Greece 1831) Physician and First Independent Greek Head of State Born to a noble Corfiot family, who had originally come from Koper. In …
Alessandro Maurocordato
(Phanar, Costantinopoli 1636/1641 – 1709/1710) Doctor, Chief Dragoman of the Empire Council Son of a silk merchant, Nicola and Roxana Beglitzi, Maurocordato was born into a Byzantine family who had …
Giovanni Argiropulo (John Argyropoulos)
(1415 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire – 1487 Rome, Italy) Greek Scholar Son of a Manuel, his early education was dedicated to literary and philosophy. In 1439, he was a member of …
Dragišić Juraj (Giorgio Benigno Salviati)
(Srebrenica 1444/1448 – 1520 Barletta) Bosnian philosopher and theologian Born in Srebrenica, Bosnia on an uncertain date, Juraj was ordained as a priest in the cathedral of Bologna in 1469. …
Demeter Dimitrija
(Zagreb, Croatia 1811- Zagreb, Croatia 1872) Greek Croatia Poet Born into a wealthy merchant family of Greek origin, at the age of sixteen Dimitrija wrote his first drama “”Βιργινία” (Virginia), …
Marko Gerbec
(Zagreb, Croatia 1811- Zagreb, Croatia 1872) Greek Croatia Poet Born into a wealthy merchant family of Greek origin, at the age of sixteen Dimitrija wrote his first drama “”Βιργινία” (Virginia), …
Costantino Cantacuzino
(ca 1650-1716 Costantinopoli) Romanian philosopher and writer Constantin Cantacuzino was born in a Wallachian boyar family of Greek origin, which claimed descent from the Byzantine imperial family Kantakouzenos. Following the death of his father in …
János Sámboky
(Nagyszombat, Trnava 1531 – Vienna 1584) Hungarian physician, historian, collector Son of Peter, who in the war against the Turks, had obtained a title of nobility and the role of …
Stefano Báthory
(Somlyo, Transilvania 1533 – 1586 Grodno) King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Stephen Báthory was born on 27 September 1533 in the castle at Somlyó, also known as …