The Italians pictured here date to A.D. 1300 and are, from left to right: the painter and creator of mosaics Cimabue (also known as Benvenuto di Giuseppe), shown in citizen dress; two men of rank; a doge of Venice; the poet and scholar and one of the earliest Renaissance humanists Petrarcha, known in English as Petrarch; Laura, the love of Petrarchs life.