Francesco Petrarca was a pioneering Italian scholar, famed as the Renaissances first poet laureate and the father of Humanism.
Søren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher and theologian who profoundly influenced existentialism and modern psychology.
Edmund Husserl was a German philosopher regarded as the founder of phenomenology, a method of philosophical inquiry that emphasizes subjective experience.
Scotus Erigena was a 9th-century Irish philosopher and theologian, renowned for his innovative synthesis of Christian Neoplatonism.
José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher, essayist, and cultural critic who profoundly influenced 20th-century European thought.