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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...ld be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in windless regio...
5: ...l]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better known as John Cabot) was first ...
7: ...ates]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is c...
21: ...rothers, [[Bartolomeo Columbus|Bartolomeo]], Giovanni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister, Bianchine...
33: ...land]] in [[1477]]. He sailed to [[Madeira]] in [[1478]] to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West... - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
4: When she was 24 her husband ɴienne du Castel died, and Pizan became a court writer ...
9: ...nce|Charles V]]. At fifteen Christine married ɴienne du Castel, who became Charles's notary and secre...
13: ...e Christine wrote ''Le Lure des faitz ci bonnes manneurs du sayge roy Charles'' (1405), valuable as a ...
25: ...e, 2nd Earl Rivers |Earl Rivers]], was printed in 1478 by [[William Caxton|Caxton]], who himself transla... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
55: *[[Anna Ancher]] ([[1859]]-[[1935]])
75: *[[Ivan Ayvazovsky|Hovhannes Ayvazovski]] ([[1817]]-[[1900]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
94: *[[Giovanni Francesco Barbieri]] ([[1591]]-[[1666]]) - Albania (24647 bytes)
66: ...Alps]], which also appears in the Scottish "Albainn", for "highlands". Alternatively, "Albania" may...
70: ... century. The word "Alba" or "Arba" seems to be connected with the town Arba (modern [[Rab]], Croatia)...
72: ...eir native land as the Arbanites of Arbanon in [[Anna Comnena]]s' account (Alexiad 4) of the troubles ...
85: ...This process was completed over the [[second millennium BC]] and did not really affect northern or cen...
92: ...ly becaming a part of the [[Ottoman Empire]] in [[1478]]. Although its most famous leader [[Skanderbeg|G... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
47: Leonardo often planned grandiose paintings with many drawings and sket...
57: *''[[Annunciation (Leonardo)|Annunciation]]'' (1475-1480) - ''[[Uffizi]]'', [[Flor...
59: *''[[The Benois Madonna]]'' (1478-1480) - ''[[Hermitage Museum]]'', [[Saint Petersb...
60: *''[[The Virgin with Flowers]]'' (1478-1481) - ''[[Alte Pinakothek]]'', [[Munich]], Germ...
64: *''[[Madonna Litta]]'' (1490-91) - ''[[Hermitage Museum]]'', ... - Sandro Botticelli (8995 bytes)
14: ...of grave heresy. Whether this be true or not, I cannot say." (Vasari)
18: ...ge:primaver.JPG|thumb|left|400px|''Primavera'' ([[1478]]): icon of the springtime renewal of the Florent...
20: ...Cosimo's son [[Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici|Giovanni]], were effusively described by Vasari:
24: ...rned in his characteristic generous impractical manner, unveiled the paintings, which were a revelatio... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
1: ...iglione, count of Novellata''' ([[December 6]], [[1478]] – [[February 2]], [[1529]]), one of the m...
15: ...etry, with recalls [[Vergil]], [[Poliziano]], [[Sannazzaro]].
23: ... it was his duty to investigate what Spain was planning against the Eternal City.
32: ... Bembo]]'s ones. Pre-romantics will find in his sonnet ''Superbi colli e voi, sacre ruine'' a focal in... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: '''Sir Thomas More''' ([[7 February]], [[1478]]–[[6 July]], [[1535]]), posthumously known...
5: ... with his father and was admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barri...
7: ... at a [[Carthusian]] monastery next to Lincoln's Inn while he considered joining the [[Franciscan]] or...
36: ...oid. After the pope steadfastly refused such an annulment, Henry forced Wolsey to resign as Lord Chan...
41: ...ish churchmen and aristocrats asking the Pope to annul Henry's marriage to Catherine. In [[1531]] he ... - Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
22: ...e [[papal Bull|Bull]] establishing the order in [[1478]]. Nevertheless Sixtus was unhappy with the exces...
34: ...]], and was succeeded by [[Pope Innocent VIII]]. Innocent twice issued [[Papal bull|bulls]] asking for...
44: ...t - the rest were either warned or wholly judged innocent and acquitted. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
13: *[[Johann Heinrich Abicht]], (1762-1816)
48: *[[Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno]], (1433-1504){{fn|R}}
78: *[[Anniceris]], (fl. 300 BC){{fn|C}}
94: *[[Hannah Arendt]], (1906-1975){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
105: *[[Kenneth Arrow]], (born 1921){{fn|O}} - Lorenzo de' Medici (6381 bytes)
10: On [[April 26]], [[1478]], in an incident called the [[Pazzi Conspiracy]]...
24: ...e the philosophers [[Marsilio Ficino]] and [[Giovanni Pico della Mirandola]], and the humanist poet [[...
32: ...later became powerful popes. His second son, Giovanni, became [[Pope Leo X]], and his adopted son Giul...
34: ...ce. Another Medici, his brother [[Pope Leo X|Giovanni]], restored it, but it was only made wholly secu...
36: ...of San Lorenzo]]; it is ornamented with the ''Madonna and Child'' of [[Michelangelo]]. - Medieval medicine (14745 bytes)
21: ...gery]] had a lower status than pure medicine, beginning as a craft tradition until [[Roger Frugardi]] ...
92: ... The [[Italy|Italian]] [[Girolamo Fracastoro]], [[1478]] - [[1553]], was the first to propose that epide...
98: ...and created many detailed anatomical drawings, planning a major work of comparative human anatomy. Unt...
104: ...vations. Obviously, without medical geniuses and innovations, civilization would not be what it is tod... - Judge (10187 bytes)
77: |( [[1478]] – [[1535]] )
156: |[[Alfred Denning, Baron Denning | Baron Alfred Denning]]
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