Campanus
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Campanus can refer to:
  • Giovanni Antonio Campani
    Giovanni Antonio Campani
    Giovanni Antonio Campani called Campanus , a protegé of Cardinal Bessarion, was a Neapolitan-born humanist at the court of Pope Pius II, whose funeral oration he wrote, followed by a biography, flattering but filled with personal reminiscence, written ca 1470-77. Campanus was famous for his Latin...

     called Campanus (1427–1477), Italian humanist.
  • Campanus of Novara (1220-1296), Italian astrologer, astronomer, and mathematician; also:
    • Campanus (crater)
      Campanus (crater)
      Campanus is a lunar impact crater that is located on the southwestern edge of Mare Nubium. It forms a crater pair with Mercator just to the southeast. Along the southern rampart of Campanus is the small lunar mare named Palus Epidemiarum...

      , a lunar crater named for him
    • the astrological house system named after him; see House (astrology)#Campanus
  • Johannes Vodnianus Campanus
    Johannes Vodnianus Campanus
    Jan Campanus Vodňanský was a Czech humanist, composer, pedagogue, poet, and dramatist. He was born in Vodňany , in southern Bohemia...

     (1572-1622), Czech humanist, composer, pedagogue, poet, and dramatist
  • Johann Campanus
    Johann Campanus
    Johann Campanus was an Flemish religious reformer of the sixteenth century. In his Autobiographical Letter to Johann Campanus , a public Latin epistle, Sebastian Franck exhorted Campanus to maintain freedom of thought in face of the charge of heresy.As a preacher, Campanus knew the Anabaptist...

     (fl.
    Floruit
    Floruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...

     1530) Belgian Anabaptist religious reformer
  • Campania
    Campania
    Campania is a region in southern Italy. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy; its total area of 13,590 km² makes it the most densely populated region in the country...

    , a region of Italy
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