Title: Pioneer humanists
Subjects: Humanism
People: Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), Benedictus de Spinoza (1632-1677), Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury Earl of (1671-1713), Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733), Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)