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| c. 1300 | Circles of humanists begin to appear in Italy. |
| 1304 | Francesco Petrarch is born. |
| 1308 | John Duns Scotus, the "subtle doctor," dies. |
| c. 1310 | Dante Alighieri completes his On Monarchy, a work praising the universal state. |
| 1323 | William of Ockham resigns his professorship at the University of Paris, and dedicates himself to political philosophy. His works will attack the church's interference in secular affairs and will lay the foundation for nominalism, the most important movement of scholastic philosophers in the later Middle Ages. |
| 1324 | Marsilius of Padua writes his Defender of the Peace, a treatise that argues for the separation of secular and religious powers. |
| 1327 | John Buridan, a nominalist philosopher trained by William of Ockham, becomes rector or head of the University of Paris. |
| 1341 | Petrarch is crowned "Poet Laureate" at Rome. |
| 1360 | Leontius Pilatus is called to serve as professor of Greek at the Studium Generale of Florence... |
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