Bartolomeo di ser Gorello, also known by the Latinized name Bartholomeus Gorellus, was an Italian notary who wrote a town chronicle of Arezzo in Italian verse. The Cronica dei fatti d'Arezzo is important to historians for its Ghibelline perspective on the power base of North Italian city-states in the later 14th century.
Bartolomeo di ser Gorello, also known by the Latinized name Bartholomeus Gorellus, was an Italian notary who wrote a town chronicle of Arezzo in Italian verse. The Cronica dei fatti d'Arezzo is important to historians for its Ghibelline perspective on the power base of North Italian city-states in the later 14th century.
Baruch Jeitteles was a Jewish scholar, writer, and doctor from Bohemia, associated with the Jewish Enlightenment movement (Haskalah). His teachers were Rabbi Yechezkel Landau of Prague and later Moses Mendelssohn of Berlin.
Baruch Schick of Shklov (1744–1808) was a Polish–Lithuanian-born rabbi, author, scholar, talmudist, physicist, and scientist. He is famous for having translated many scientific works into Hebrew upon the request of the Vilna Gaon. He wrote about topics ranging from medicine to hygiene, and was known as one of the many pioneers of the Haskalah movement. He served as a dayan in the communities of Minsk and Slutsk throughout his life. Baruch descended from the famous Jewish families of Schick and Ginzberg. He was acknowledged as the first Jew to translate from English to Hebrew.
Baruch (de) Spinoza was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, born in Amsterdam, the Dutch Republic, and mostly known under the Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza. One of the foremost and seminal thinkers of the Enlightenment, modern biblical criticism, and 17th-century Rationalism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered "one of the most important philosophers—and certainly the most radical—of the early modern period". Inspired by Stoicism, Jewish Rationalism, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Descartes, and a variety of heterodox religious thinkers of his day, Spinoza became a leading philosophical figure of the Dutch Golden Age.
