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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
1: ...scope_catherine_de_medici.jpg|thumb|Catherine de' Medici]]
3: ... Italy as '''Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de' Medici''', and later lived in [[France]] under the name ...
5: ..., Italy]], she was a daughter of [[Lorenzo II de' Medici]], Duke of Urbino, and a French princess, [[Madel...
7: ...quence, whispers of a divorce began at court, and it seemed possible that Francis, alarmed at the poss...
9: ...l aunt the Duchess of Albany died, Catherine inherited the [[County of Auvergne]]. - Lorenzo de' Medici (6381 bytes)
2: ... [[Florentine Republic]] during the height of the Italian [[Renaissance]].
4: ...co'') by his contemporary Florentines, he was a glittery individual who loved to enter tournaments, co...
6: ==Lorenzo and politics==
8: ...[Piero di Cosimo de' Medici|Piero 'the Gouty' de' Medici]] in 1469, when Lorenzo was just twenty.
10: ... his brother and co-ruler [[Giuliano di Piero de' Medici|Giuliano]] in the cathedral of Florence, killing ...
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- Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
1: :''For the Italian ship named after Vespucci, see [[Amerigo Ves...
4: ...454]] - [[February 22]], [[1512]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[merchant]] and [[cartography|cartographe...
8: Amerigo Vespucci was born in [[Florence]], [[Italy]], as the third child of a respected family. H...
10: ...ad proposed that the two letters were forgeries written by others of the same period.
12: ... [[Naming of America]].) ''Amerigo'' itself is an Italian form of ''[[Haimirich]]'' (in English, Henry... - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
1: ...scope_catherine_de_medici.jpg|thumb|Catherine de' Medici]]
3: ... Italy as '''Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de' Medici''', and later lived in [[France]] under the name ...
5: ..., Italy]], she was a daughter of [[Lorenzo II de' Medici]], Duke of Urbino, and a French princess, [[Madel...
7: ...quence, whispers of a divorce began at court, and it seemed possible that Francis, alarmed at the poss...
9: ...l aunt the Duchess of Albany died, Catherine inherited the [[County of Auvergne]]. - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
1: '''Diane de Poitiers''' ([[September 3]], [[1499]] - [[April 25]],...
3: ...is I of France|King Franį¯Šs I]], she gained the title of Duchesse de Valentinois.
5: ...le foreigner [[Catherine de' Medici]], Diane de Poitiers would remain his lifelong true love. They had...
7: [[Image:DianedePoitiers.jpg|left|frame|Diane de Poitiers]]
9: ... he did not forget to present the royal mistress with a pearl necklace. - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
1: ...pg|thumb|250px|right|style=margin-left:1em|Marguerite de Valois]]
2: ...arre]]. She should not be confused with [[Marguerite_of_Navarre|the famous author of the same name]] ...
4: ...Henry II of France|Henri II]] and [[Catherine de' Medici]]. Three of her brothers became kings of France:...
6: ...pposed the marriage, many of her nobles supported it, and the marriage was arranged. Jeanne d'Albret d...
8: ...ing at each other. When the Cardinal asked Marguerite if she willingly took Henri to be her husband, s... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ...6]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
12: She was born at [[Linlithgow Palace]], West Lothian, [[Scotland]], on [[De...
14: ...questionable. Females and female lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
15: ...y have inherited. In this sort of [[Semi-Salic]] situation, Mary ascended the throne because all other...
17: ...in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.) - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
6: ...nand-Karl ? already had important official roles within the [[Hapsburg]] Empire.
7: .... She was considered one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]]
11: ...the Prince of [[Parma]] and Maria-Antonia's favourite sister, Maria-Carolina, was married to King Ferd...
13: ... the next child to be involved in her mother's political games.
15: ...eresa]]'s daughters. With Johanna-Gabriella dead, it was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to ... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...udith.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''[[Book of Judith|Judith]] Beheading [[Holofernes]]'' (1612-21) Oil on ca...
10: ...a]] school (which had [[Annibale Carracci]] among its major artists).
12: ...is promise and Orazio reported Tassi to the authorities.
14: ... can tell the same story under torture as without it, the story must be true. At the end of the trial ...
16: ...ditta che decapita Oloferne]]'' (''"Giuditta decapitating Oloferne"'') ([[1612]]-13), stored in the [[... - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
1: ...e]]. It is also known as "'''Rinascimento'''" (in Italian).
5: ...talization'' of European culture in general. Thus it is possible to speak of the Renaissance in two di...
7: ....jpg|right|thumb|180px|[[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s [[Vitruvian Man]], an example of the blend of art and s...
10: ...[[periodization|periodisation]], [[Lumpers and splitters]])
12: ...h will concentrate on the Renaissance as the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age. - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...thority and [[freedom of thought]], particularly with [[science]], in [[Western society]].
5: Galileo was born in [[Pisa]], [[Italy]], as the son of [[Vincenzo Galilei]], a mathe...
7: ...ved to the [[University of Padua]], and served on its faculty teaching [[geometry]], [[mechanics]], an...
10: ...ted to the rejection of blind allegiance to authority (like the Church) or other thinkers (such as [[A...
12: ...rements of time, which appeared to be impossible with the technology of the [[1600s]]. According to Ko... - List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
1: This is a list of notable people associated with the [[Renaissance]].
3: ==Political leaders==
5: *Italian Renaissance
10: **[[Andrea Gritti]]
12: **[[Cosimo de' Medici]] - Plato (17363 bytes)
2: ...dent of [[Socrates]], teacher of [[Aristotle]], writer, and founder of the [[Academy]] in [[Athens]]. ...
4: ...|First Alcibiades]]'', ''[[Clitophon (dialogue)|Clitophon]]'') or probably spurious (such as ''[[Demod...
6: ...logue is Socrates' point of view, and how much of it Plato's.
8: ...." -- [[Alfred North Whitehead]], Process and Reality, 1929]]
12: ...ince "Plato" means ''broad'', it probably refers either to his physical appearance or to his wrestling... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...anuary 1 was called ''New Year's Day'', and was, with [[Christmas]] and occasionally [[Twelfth Night (...
7: *[[404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
16: *[[1788]] - First edition of ''[[The Times]]'' of [[London]], previously...
17: ...[1797]] - Albany replaces New York City as the capital on New York.
18: ...d [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed to form [[United Kingdom]] - List of popes (77758 bytes)
4: ...tenure of [[Pope Siricius]], and there have been either 265 or 266 popes, depending on whether a sourc...
6: ... [[Archbishop]] and [[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus Servor...
7: ...been [[Sovereign]] in the State of the [[Vatican City]] (the [[Holy See]]).
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 Sep...
57: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); feast day [[26 Oct... - Donatello (10376 bytes)
7: ...preme expression of the spirit of this era in architecture and sculpture and exercised a potent influe...
10: ...oused public enthusiasm, however, when placed in situ, and at a later date received [[Michelangelo Buo...
14: ...faithfully copied from life with all their angularities and deviations from the lines of beauty.
16: ...ar of [[San Antonio]] in [[Padua]] and of the pulpit of [[Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze|San Loren...
18: ...naissance architecture, even before his second visit to Rome. - Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
1: ...His life was described in [[Giorgio Vasari]]'s ''Vite''.
7: ...to him at an early date and which we find in use within thirty years after his death, but was not prop...
9: ...came famous. He had the patronage of [[Cosimo de' Medici]]. According to Vasari, the first paintings of th...
13: ...hrist'' executed for the Church of the [[Holy Trinity]] in [[Florence]], paintings that Vasari indicat...
15: ...he painted in the convent of S. Domenico in this city; as a fresco-painter, he may have worked under, ... - Sandro Botticelli (8995 bytes)
1: ...itably enough, he expressed at the head of his ''Vita'' of Botticelli.
3: ... ''Venus Pudica'' for a new view of pagan [[Antiquity]] (Uffizi, Florence)]]
5: ...ustine]] that successfully competed as a pendant with [[Domenico Ghirlandaio]]'s Jerome on the other s...
7: ... of Venus'' (''illustration, right'') was at the Medici villa of Castello.
9: ...|Botticelli's ''Venus'' graces the first of the [[Italian euro coins]] (2002)]] - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
8: He was born in [[Mantua]], [[Italy]] to an ancient family from [[Lombardy]] that ...
10: ...in Milan of Louis XII. For Gonzaga he travelled quite often; during one of his missions to [[Rome]], h...
13: ...ural life that produced a brilliant literary activity.
15: ... echoes of both ancient and contemporary poetry, with recalls [[Vergil]], [[Poliziano]], [[Sannazzaro]...
17: ...ar to diplomacy, though in a literary form, like with [[Ludovico da Canossa]]. - Leonardo Bruni (2706 bytes)
6: ...ily and then the [[Medici]] family dominated the city during his time in office. He was succeeded in o...
10: ...e fall of Rome extending to the time of Petrarch. It was Bruni and his fellow humanists who believed t...
12: It was Brunni who used the phrase ''studia humanitatis'', meaning the study of human endevours versu...
14: ...n of Renaissance political philosophers (see [[Tacitean studies]] for details).
20: ...entine People''] (PDF), Excerpts and excellent 'Editor Introduction' (2001). - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
3: ...iavelli was also a key figure in [[realist]] [[political theory]], crucial to European statecraft duri...
10: ...argely occupied with events arising out of the ambitions of [[Pope Alexander VI]] and his son, [[Cesar...
12: ...rea in Percussina]], where he devoted himself to literature. He died in Florence in [[1527]] and his r...
15: ...n its Index – a list of books against the faith.
17: ...emporaries, often used in the introductions of political tracts of the sixteenth century that offered ... - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ...[[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737]]) by the [[Medici]] family.
3: ...s famous for its wealth of fine [[art]] and [[architecture]].
5: ...|right|127px|"Giglio di Firenze" - symbol of the city]]
7: ...62.JPG|right|thumb|300px|An Overview of Florence (Italian: Firenze)]]
17: ...round the beginning of the 4th century A.D., the city experienced subsequent periods of [[Byzantine]],...
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