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Olivier Basselin, French dyer and reputed author of Vaux-de-Vire (c. 1400 - c. 1450) John Faust (Fust), German printer and partner of Gutenberg (1400? - 1466?) READ QUOTES (1) Johann Gutenberg, German printer (c. 1400 - 1468) Lucia della Robbia, Florentine (Italian) sculptor (1400 - 1482) Nicholas Cusa, German cardinal, philosopher and mathematician (1401 - 1464) READ QUOTES (1) Massaccio (Tommaso Guidi or Tommaso de Ser Giovanni de Mone), Florentine (Italian) painter, "Father of Modern Art" (1401 - 1428) Francesco Sforza, Italian condottiere (1401 - 1466) Leon Battista Alberti, Italian architect, philosopher and poet (1404 - 1472) READ QUOTES (1) Pope Pius II, Italian cleric and pope (1458-64) (1405 - 1464) READ QUOTES (1) Martin le Franc, French poet (died c. 1460) READ QUOTES (1) Piero della Francesca, Italian painter and mathematician (1410 - 1492) Sir Thomas Malory (used pseudonym Morte d'Arthur), English knight soldier (1410? - 1471) READ QUOTES (4) Edward Grymestone, English notable (fl. 1446) READ QUOTES (1) Sixtus IV, Italian pope (1414 - 1484) Frederick III, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1415 - 1493) Sir Richard Holland, Scottish poet (fl. 1450) READ QUOTES (1) John Russell (1), English writer (fl. 1450) READ QUOTES (10) Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta ("Wolf of Rimini"), Italian tyrant and art patron (? - 1468) Benozzo Gozzoli, Florentine (Italian) painter (1420 - 1497) Francesco da Laurana, Italian architect, sculptor and medalist (c. 1420 - 1503) Don Jorge Manrique, Spanish poet (c. 1420 - 1485) READ QUOTES (2) Platina (Bartolommeo de Sacchi), Italian humanist and historian (1421 - 1481) Vespasiano di Bisticci (Vespasiano Fiorentino), Florentine (Italian) humanist and librarian (1421 - 1498) William Caxton, English printer, writer and translator (1422? - 1491) READ QUOTES (1) Federigo da Montefeltro , Duke of Urbino, Italian general, builder and benefactor (1422 - 1482) Louis XI, French king (1423 - 1483) READ QUOTES (2) Thomas Rotherham (a/k/a Thomas Scott), English prelate (1423 - 1500) Julius Pomponius Laetus, Italian antiquarian and historian (1425 - 1497) Sir Richard Ros, English poet (1429 - ?) Alexander VI, Spanish pope (1430 - 1503) Michael Apostolius, Greek theologian and rhetorician (? - 1480) Giovanni Bellini, Venetian painter (c. 1430 - 1516) Matteo Marie Boiardo (Bojardo), French poet and scholar (1430 - 1494) Robert Henryson (Henderson), Scottish poet (1430? - 1506?) Mahomet II, the Great, Turkish sultan and conqueror of Constantinople (1430 - 1481) READ QUOTES (3) Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter and engraver (1431 - 1506) Francois Villon, French poet (1431 - 1484) READ QUOTES (7) Constantine Lascaris, Greek grammarian (1434 - 1501) READ QUOTES (1) Janus Pannonius (Johannes Jessinge or Cisinge), Hungarian poet, Bishop of Pecs (1434 - 1472) Andrea del Verrocchio, Florentine (Italian) painter and sculptor (1435 - 1488) Melozzo da Forli, Italian painter (1438 - 1494) Anthony Woodville, Baron Scales, 2nd Earl Rivers, English statesman and compiler (1442? - 1483) Pope Julius II (Giuliano della Rovere), Italian pope (1443 - 1513) Donato Bramante, Italian architect (1444 - 1514) Sandro Botticelli, Florentine (Italian) painter (c. 1445 - 1510) John Scogin (fl. 1480) READ QUOTES (1) Richard Hill, English bishop (? - 1496) Aldus Manutius (Aldo Manuzio), Italian printer and scholar (1447 - 1515) READ QUOTES (1) Philippe de Comines, French historian, courtier and diplomat (1447? - 1511?) READ QUOTES (1) Johannes Baptista Spanolo Mantuanus, Mantuan Latin poet (1448 - 1516) READ QUOTES (2) Lorenzo de Medici ("Lorenzo the Magnificent"), Florentine (Italian) banker, poet, politician and art patron (1449 - 1492) Kabir, Hindu mystic poet, Sikh religion based on his teachings (1450? - 1518) READ QUOTES (2) Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (1451 - 1506) READ QUOTES (4) Isabella I of Castile, Castilian queen and wife of Ferdinand V of Aragon (1451 - 1504) Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, architect and engineer (1452 - 1519) READ QUOTES (4) CHECK READING LIST (1) Girolamo Savonarola, Italian Dominican friar and reformer (1452 - 1498) READ QUOTES (3) Filippo Beroaldus, Italian scholar and classical commentator (1453 - 1505) Pinturicchio, Italian painter (1454 - 1513) Angelo Poliziano, Italian poet (1454 - 1494) Henry Bradshaw, English Benedictine monk of Chester (? - 1513) Robert Fabyan, English chronicler (? - 1513) Jacopo Sannazaro (Sannazarius), Italian poet (1458 - 1530) READ QUOTES (5) Pierre Blanchet, French dramatic poet (c. 1459 - 1519) READ QUOTES (1) John Fisher (1), English prelate and theological writer (1459 - 1535) Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor and woodcarver (1460? - 1531) John Skelton, English satirical poet (1460 - 1529) READ QUOTES (11) Antonio Pasquino, Roman wit and variously described as a barber, cobbler, tailor or teacher (fl. 1501) Louis XII, French king (1462 - 1515) Henry Medwall, English writer of interludes (c. 1462 - c. 1522) John Stanbridge, English grammarian (1463 - 1510) William Dunbar, Scottish poet (1465? - 1530?) Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus, Dutch scholar, philosopher and writer (1465 - 1536) READ QUOTES (46) CHECK READING LIST (1) Fernando Rojas, Spanish author (c. 1465 - 1541) READ QUOTES (1) Symon Symonds, English clergyman (fl. c. 1500) Guillaume Alexis, French Benedictine poet (fl. 1506) READ QUOTES (1) Bishop John Colet, English priest, scholar and reformer (1466 - 1519) Scipione Fortinguerra (Carteromachus), Italian philologist (1466 - 1515) Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, Italian patriot (1466 - 1519) John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, English statesman and translator (1467 - 1533) Stephen Hawes, English poet (died 1523?) READ QUOTES (1) Pope Paul III (Pope Allessandro Farnese), Italian religious leader, convoked Council of Trent, excommunicated Henry VIII (1468 - 1549) READ QUOTES (1) Niccolo Machiavelli (Macchiavelli), Italian philosopher, statesman, diplomatist and writer (1469 - 1527) READ QUOTES (39) CHECK READING LIST (2) Ludovicus Coelius Rhodiginus, Italian scholar (1469 - 1525) Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, English jurist and legal writer (1470 - 1538) Polydore Vergil, Italian ecclesiastic and historian (1470 - 1550) Gil Vicente, Portuguese dramatist, poet and writer of literature (1470 - 1540) READ QUOTES (2) Albrecht Durer, German painter and engraver (1471 - 1528) READ QUOTES (1) Lucas Cranach, the Elder, German painter and woodcarver (1472 - 1553) Erard de la Marck, French cardinal, prince and Bishop of Liege (1472 - 1538) Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer (1473 - 1543) READ QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (1474 - 1533) READ QUOTES (9) Bishop Gavin Douglas, Scottish poet and bishop (1474 - 1522) READ QUOTES (1) Alexander Barclay, English poet, scholar and divine (1475? - 1552) READ QUOTES (1) Chevalier Pierre du Terrail Bayard, French national hero and captain in Italian campaigns of Charles VIII (c. 1475 - 1524) READ QUOTES (5) Cesare Borgia, Italian cardinal and military leader (1475(6) - 1507) READ QUOTES (1) Leo X, Italian pope (1475 - 1521) READ QUOTES (2) Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarrotti), Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475 - 1564) READ QUOTES (13) Thomas Wolsey, English cardinal, statesman and diplomatist, Lord Chancellor under Henry VIII (1475? - 1530) READ QUOTES (1) Titian (Tiziano Vecelli), Italian painter (1477 - 1576) Wolfgang Fabricius Capito (Wolfgang Fabricius Kopfel), German Protestant reformer (1478 - 1541) Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and writer (1478 - 1529) Clement VII (Giulio de Medici), Roman pope (1478? - 1534) Robert Copland, English writer and printer (fl. 1508 - 1547) Giorgione (Giorgio da Castelfranco), Venetian painter (1478? - 1511) Sir Thomas More, English wit, philosopher, humanist, statesman and saint (1478 - 1535) READ QUOTES (16) CHECK READING LIST (1) Ippolito d'Este, Italian cardinal and art patron (1479 - 1520) Gregorius Gyraldus Lilius (Giglio Gregorio Giraldi), Italian scholar and poet (1479 - 1552) Gautemozin, Mexican emperor (c. 1520) William Horman, English educator (? - 1535) Pol Limbourg, Belgian miniature painter with brothers Hermann and Jan (c. 1480 - 1520) Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (c. 1480 - 1521) Jean (Johann) Ravisius-Textor (a/k/a Jean Tixier de Ravisi), French humanist (c. 1480 - 1524) Jean Tixier de Ravisi (a/k/a Jean (Johann) Ravisius-Textor), French humanist (c. 1480 - 1524) Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian ecclesiastic, humanist, poet and writer (1480? - 1566) John Rastall, English printer (? - 1536) John Hallam, English politician (? - 1537) READ QUOTES (1) Paolo Giovio (Paulus Jovius), Italian biographer, historian and bishop of Nocera (1483 - 1552) Franceso Guicciardini, Italian historian and dramatist (1483 - 1540) READ QUOTES (6) Martin Luther, German religious reformer (1483 - 1546) READ QUOTES (99) CHECK READING LIST (3) Raphael (Raffaello Santi), Italian painter (1483 - 1520) Margaret More, English diarist, daughter of Sir Thomas More (fl. 1524) Thomas Sternhold, English versifier of the Psalms (? - 1549) Hernando Cortez, Spanish conqueror of Mexico (1485 - 1547) READ QUOTES (1) Hugh Latimer, English religious reformer (1485? - 1555) READ QUOTES (9) Lord Thomas Manners, Earl of Rutland, English noble (before 1488 - 1543) Sir William Paulet (Pawlet or Poulet), Marquis of Winchester, English courtier (1485? - 1572) Andrea del Sarto, Florentine (Italian) artist (1486 - 1530) READ QUOTES (1) Pope Julius III (Gianmaria del Monte), Italian cardinal Glocel, reopened council of Trent (1487 - 1555) Ulrich von Wurttemberg, German duke (1487 - 1550) READ QUOTES (1) Miles Coverdale, English Bible translator (1488 - 1568) Bishop Antonio Guevara, Spanish cleric (? - 1548) Thomas Cranmer, English archbishop and statesman (1489 - 1556) Wynkyn de Worde (Jan van Wynken), English printer and stationer (? - 1534?) READ QUOTES (1) Francesco Berni, Italian burlesque poet (1490 - 1536) READ QUOTES (1) Andrew Boorde (Borde), English physician and traveler (1490? - 1549) Sir Thomas Elyot, English diplomatist and author (1490? - 1546) READ QUOTES (2) Antonio Guevera, Spanish bishop (? - 1548) READ QUOTES (1) Sir David Lindsay (Lyndsay), British poet and king of arms (1490 - 1555) Henry Brinkelow, English satirist (? - 1546) Sir Robert Dymoke, English knight-banneret and sheriff (? - 1546) Henry VIII, English king (1491 - 1547) St. Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish soldier and ecclesiastic, founder of Jesuits (1491 - 1556) READ QUOTES (1) Andrea Alciatus, Italian jurist and writer (1492 - 1550) Pietro Aretino, Italian poet, satirical writer and dramatist (1492 - 1556) READ QUOTES (2) Bernal Diaz Del Castillo, Spanish soldier and historian (1492 - 1584) CHECK READING LIST (1) Margaret of Navarre, French queen (1492 - 1549) Franciscus Floridus Sabinus, Italian writer and interpreter of civil law (? - 1547) William Tyndale, English Bible translator (1492? - 1536) Johannes Ludovicus Vives, Spanish scholar at the English court (1492 - 1540) Paracelsus (ps of Philippus Theophrastus Bombastus ab von Hohenheim), Swiss physician, alchemist and charlatan (1493 - 1541) Antonio Allegri da Correggio, Italian painter (1494 - 1534) READ QUOTES (1) Francis I (Francois), French king (1494 - 1547) READ QUOTES (4) Francois Rabelais, French monk, humorist and satirist (1494? - 1553) READ QUOTES (70) CHECK READING LIST (1) Luigi Alamanni, Italian statesman and poet (1495 - 1556) READ QUOTES (1) John Bale, English prelate, Bishop of Ossory (1495 - 1563) Clement Marot, Cahors French poet (1495 - 1544) READ QUOTES (1) Henry Brinklow, British satirist, writer and reformer (? - 1546) READ QUOTES (1) Marco Guazzo, Italian litterateur (c. 1496 - 1556) John Heywood, English dramatist and collector of proverbs (c. 1497 - c. 1580) READ QUOTES (47) Hans Holbein, the Younger, German painter (1497? - 1543) Melanchthon (pseudonym of Philip Schwarzerd), German humanist and professor of Greek (1497 - 1560) READ QUOTES (3) Sebastian Franck, German writer (1499 - 1542) Edward Hall, English chronicler (1499? - 1547) John Palsgrave, English chaplain and compiler (1554) Giulio Romano (Giulio di Pietro di Filippo de' Gianuzzi), Italian painter and architect (1499 - 1546) Thomas Starkey, English divine and religious writer (1499? - 1538) READ QUOTES (1)
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