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- Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
2: ...37]]–[[7 June|7]]/[[8 June]] [[1492]]) was the [[Queen consort]] of King [[Edward IV of England]...
6: ...ant to the throne.) Elizabeth had two sons from the marriage, [[Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset|T...
10: ...vers|Earl Rivers]], began to be favored over him, he changed sides.
12: ...[Catherine Woodville]], to her 11-year-old ward [[Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham]].
16: ...th and Wells), testified that he had carried out the ceremony. - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...ira Islands|Madeira and Porto Santo]] (including the [[Savage Islands]]).
5: ...] stretched across the world. After the rise of other colonial powers, Portugal declined.
7: ...he subsequent decades, with a clear slow-down in the last few years.
15: ...stablished in southern Portugal for a long time. The [[Celtic|Celtics]], a later wave of Celts, settle...
17: ...achieved by bribing Lusitanian officials to kill their own leader. During this period, a process of [[... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painte...
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
22: *[[Hans von Aachen]] ([[1552]]-[[1615]])
27: *[[Andreas Achenbach]] ([[1815]]-[[1910]]) - List of popes (77758 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of Popes of the Roman Catholic Church'''.
4: ... source counts [[#Notes on numbering of popes|Stephen II]].
6: ...rovince'' and ''[[Servus Servorum Dei|Servant of the Servants of God]].''
7: ...overeign]] in the State of the [[Vatican City]] (the [[Holy See]]).
22: | '''Petrus''', <small>Head of the Church</small> - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
1: ...1478]] – [[February 2]], [[1529]]), one of the most important [[renaissance]] authors and a dipl...
8: ...ovico Gonzaga]], a relative of Luigia Gonzaga, mother of Castiglione.
10: ...te often; during one of his missions to [[Rome]], he met [[Guidubaldo da Montefeltro]], duke of [[Urbi...
13: ...sin of both Castiglione and the duke), and many others. Notably, guests used to organise intellectual ...
15: ...erds, he originally depicts the court of Urbino. The work contains echoes of both ancient and contempo... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
1: ...ht|Portrait of Sir Thomas More by [[Hans Holbein the Younger]]]]
2: ...he [[Roman Catholic Church]], in which he became the [[patron saint]] of statesmen, lawyers, and polit...
5: ...urned to London, where he studied law with his father and was admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]...
7: ...monastic practices, including self-punishment in the form of wearing a [[hair shirt]] and occasional [...
9: ... with an excellent classical education at a time when such learning was usually reserved for men. - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
1: ...lli.jpg|thumb|150px|Machiavelli, ca [[1500]], in the robes of a Florentine public official]]
3: ... theory]], crucial to European statecraft during the [[Renaissance]].
6: [[Image:Macchiavelli01.jpg|thumb|Statue at the [[Uffizi]]]]
8: ...lawyer of some repute and belonged to an impoverished branch of an influential old Florentine family.
10: ...]], and these characters fill a large space of ''The Prince''. - Francesco Guicciardini (1068 bytes)
1: ...considered one of the major political writers of the [[Italian Renaissance]].
3: ...scorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio]]''. In these as well as his ''Maxims'' (''Ricordi'') Guiccia...
11: * ''Consolatoria'' (1527)
12: * ''Oratio accusatoria'' (1527)
13: * ''Oratio defensoria'' (1527) - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ...4]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737]]) by the [[Medici]] family.
3: ...e city is sometimes considered the birthplace of the [[Italian Renaissance]]. Florence is famous for i...
5: ...humb|right|127px|"Giglio di Firenze" - symbol of the city]]
9: ...he bridges of Florence at sunset from Piazzale Michelangelo]]
17: ... [[Lombard]] and [[Frankish rule]], during which the population may have fallen to as few as 1,000. - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
2: ...nds|Dutch]] [[humanism|humanist]] and [[theology|theologian]].
6: ...attack in his lifelong assault upon the evils of the Church.
8: ...the rest of his life as an English [[professor]]. He stayed at [[Queens' College, Cambridge]] and may ...
10: ...dus Manutius]] at [[Venice]], but apart from this he had a less active association with Italian schola...
12: ... the great publisher [[Froben]], and to him came the multitude of his admirers from all quarters of Eu... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ...opher]]s''' ''(and non-philosophers important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabeticall...
13: *[[Johann Heinrich Abicht]], (1762-1816)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
25: *[[Theodor Adorno]], (1903-1969){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}} - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
4: ...[Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas|Spanish]] [[hegemony]].
6: ... their gods, the foremost of which was [[Inti]], the sun god.
8: ...ht|A view of [[Machu Picchu]], "the Lost City of the Incas," now an archaelogical site.]]
9: ...erred to the four provinces whose corners met at the empire's capital, [[Cusco]] (Qosqo).
11: ...ng to the beliefs of the people or the artifacts they left behind. - Sebastiano Serlio (4494 bytes)
1: ...m building Fontainebleau. Serlio helped canonize the [[classical order]]s of architecture in his influ...
3: ...Venice from 1527 to 1540 but left little mark on the city.
4: ...e of 1537 crystallized a format that lasted into the 18th century]]
6: ...es compete for primacy: but Serlio's woodcut put the concept in every architect's hands.
8: ...one that has survived in any recognizable way is the Chateau of Ancy-le-Franc (see below), built about... - List of geographers (2342 bytes)
1: The [[geographer]]s are listed below in [[English language|Englis...
18: * [[John Dee]] (England, [[1527]] - [[1608]])
22: * [[Eratosthenes]] (Greece, [[276 BC|276 B.C.]] - [[194 BC|194 ...
33: * [[David Harvey (geographer)|David Harvey]] (United States, Great Britain, b...
46: * [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] (Greece, fl. circa [[150]]) - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
2: ...tates]] expeditionary logs as a slave servant in the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca's party.
5: ...a [[Spanish nobility|Spanish nobleman]] with whom he developed close ties.
8: ...t-day [[Mexico]]), where they were reunited with their countrymen.
10: ...from an [[owl]], a bird that symbolized death to the Zuni.
13: ... Estevanico in later accounts is proof enough of the explorer's death. - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...the first phase of the [[Spanish colonization of the Americas]].
4: ...endoza]]. Cortés returned to Spain in 1541 where he died peacefully but embittered.
6: ...riptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either damning or idealizing.
10: ...sh and English languages in modern times, and is the name which many people know him by today.
14: ...hird Governor of Hispaniola. His paternal grandfather was a son of [[Rodrigo de Monroy y Almaraz, 5th ... - Madrid (20882 bytes)
2: [[Image:Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Municipality_of_Madrid.png|thumbnail|200px|[[Coat...
4: ...as 4,791,000 as of 2000 estimates. Population of the [[metropolitan area]] (urban area plus satellite ...
6: ... the capital not only of the country but also of the [[Madrid (province)|province]] and ''[[Madrid (au...
8: [[As of 2004]], the [[mayor]] of Madrid is [[Alberto Ruiz-Gallard�n...
14: ... their quarter, still called the "Moreria" until they were expelled and every mosque and synagogue was...
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