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- Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
2: ...ing [[Edward IV of England]] from [[1464]] until his death in [[1483]].
6: ...ause. (This was ironic, as Edward IV was the Yorkist claimant to the throne.) Elizabeth had two sons...
10: ...n [[Northamptonshire]]. At the time, Edward's adviser, [[Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick]], was nego...
12: ...ld but very wealthy. The queen also married her sister, [[Catherine Woodville]], to her 11-year-old w...
16: ...a priest (believed to be [[Robert Stillington]], Bishop of Bath and Wells), testified that he had carr... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...Madeira and Porto Santo]] (including the [[Savage Islands]]).
5: ...e Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other colonial powers, Portugal declined.
9: == History ==
10: {{Main|History of Portugal}}
15: ...Lusit⮩a" paragraph 1}} The [[Conii]] were established in southern Portugal for a long time. The [[Ce... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
8: ...[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
12: ...840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
13: ...([[1881]]-[[1973]]), Spanish [[Cubism|cubist]] artist - List of popes (77758 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of Popes of the Roman Catholic Church'''.
4: ...al leaders, this title in [[English language|English]] usage generally refers to the supreme head of ...
6: ... of [[Italy]], [[Archbishop]] and [[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[...
9: == List of popes ==
25: | <small>Disciple of [[Jesus]] from whom, according to {{bible... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
1: ...y 2]], [[1529]]), one of the most important [[renaissance]] authors and a diplomat.
8: ... that had moved to [[Mantua]] at the time of marquis [[Lodovico Gonzaga]], a relative of Luigia Gonzag...
10: ...zaga he travelled quite often; during one of his missions to [[Rome]], he met [[Guidubaldo da Montefel...
13: ...e), and many others. Notably, guests used to organise intellectual competitions which resulted in an i...
15: ... wrote (and played together with Cosimo Gonzaga) his eclogue ''Tirsi'' in which allusively, beyond the... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ... his political career and led to his [[capital punishment|execution]] as a [[treason|traitor]]. More ...
5: ...n]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barrister]].
7: ...bserve many monastic practices, including self-punishment in the form of wearing a [[hair shirt]] and ...
9: ...aughter by her previous husband. More provided his daughters with an excellent classical education a...
12: ...rd Chancellor: [[Thomas Cardinal Wolsey]], [[Archbishop of York]]. - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
3: ..., crucial to European statecraft during the [[Renaissance]].
8: ...a lawyer of some repute and belonged to an impoverished branch of an influential old Florentine family...
10: ...ut of the ambitions of [[Pope Alexander VI]] and his son, [[Cesare Borgia]], and these characters fill...
12: ...ing place is unknown, however a symbolic tomb in his honor can be found at the [[Basilica di Santa Cro...
14: ==Machiavellianism== - Francesco Guicciardini (1068 bytes)
1: ... the major political writers of the [[Italian Renaissance]].
3: ...Ricordi'') Guicciardini presents a worldview that is more skeptical and more conservative than that of...
9: * ''Discorso di Logrogno'' (1512)
11: * ''Consolatoria'' (1527)
12: * ''Oratio accusatoria'' (1527) - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ...nce was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737]]) by the [[Medici]] family...
3: ...rthplace of the [[Italian Renaissance]]. Florence is famous for its wealth of fine [[art]] and [[archi...
13: ==History of Florence==
15: ''Main article'': [[History of Florence]]
17: ...antine]], [[Ostrogothic]], [[Lombard]] and [[Frankish rule]], during which the population may have fal... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
2: ...36]]) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[humanism|humanist]] and [[theology|theologian]].
6: ...sm was one of the chief objects of his attack in his lifelong assault upon the evils of the Church.
8: ...option of spending the rest of his life as an English [[professor]]. He stayed at [[Queens' College, C...
10: ...|Aldus Manutius]] at [[Venice]], but apart from this he had a less active association with Italian sch...
12: ...her [[Froben]], and to him came the multitude of his admirers from all quarters of Europe. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ...rs important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn...
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
48: *[[Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno]], (1433-1504){{fn|R}} - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
2: {{History of Peru}}
4: ...ing of [[Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas|Spanish]] [[hegemony]].
9: ...ng of the phrase ''tawantin suyu'' in [[Quechua]] is "the four regions between", which referred to the...
11: ...also refer to the people or the civilization, and is used as an adjective when referring to the belief...
17: ...Manco]] and [[Mama Ocllo|Ocllo]], and Sinchi Roca is the person who finally led them to the valley of ... - Sebastiano Serlio (4494 bytes)
1: ... order]]s of architecture in his influential treatise, ''Tutte l'opere d'archittura et prospetiva''.
3: ...i, he began as a painter. He lived in Venice from 1527 to 1540 but left little mark on the city.
6: ...l face to a Gothic form, first seen in [[Leon Battista Alberti|Alberti]]'s [[Santa Maria Novella]] in ...
8: ...nly one that has survived in any recognizable way is the Chateau of Ancy-le-Franc (see below), built a...
10: ...er Serlio's book was in the libraries of Sir [[Christopher Wren]] and Robert Woods, the entrepreneur w... - List of geographers (2342 bytes)
1: ...her]]s are listed below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet|alphabetical]] [[transliteration]] ...
14: * [[Walter Christaller]] (Germany [[1893]] - [[1969]])
17: * [[William Morris Davis]] (USA, [[1850]] - [[1934]])
18: * [[John Dee]] (England, [[1527]] - [[1608]])
52: * [[Elisee Reclus]] - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
2: ... expeditionary logs as a slave servant in the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca's party.
5:
8: ...s enslaved by the Ananarivo of the Louisiana Gulf Islands, but they eventually escaped into the Americ...
10: ...be regarded him with mistrust, partially because his medicine gourd was trimmed with feathers from an ...
13: ...ack of references to Estevanico in later accounts is proof enough of the explorer's death. - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...olonizers that began the first phase of the [[Spanish colonization of the Americas]].
4: ...o be acknowledged for his successes instead of punished for mutiny. After he overthrew the Aztec empir...
6: ...l trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either damning or idealizing.
10: ...panish and English languages in modern times, and is the name which many people know him by today.
14: ... y Cáceres]], the third Governor of Hispaniola. His paternal grandfather was a son of [[Rodrigo de Mo... - Madrid (20882 bytes)
4: '''Madrid''', the [[capital]] of [[Spain]], is located in the center of the country at {{coor dm...
6: Madrid is the capital not only of the country but also of t...
8: [[As of 2004]], the [[mayor]] of Madrid is [[Alberto Ruiz-Gallard�n]].
10: == History ==
14: ...enerales|Cortes]] first assembled in Madrid to advise [[Ferdinand IV of Castile|Fernando IV]]. Jews an...
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