Страница - 1800Страница - 1802- Lorenzo I. de’Medici, prince of Florence, poet, scholar, and patron of art and literature (1448-1492).
- JOHANN GUTENBERG, German inventor of printing (1400-1468).
- Vasco da Gama, Portuguese navigator (1450?-1525).
- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (Italian Cristoforo Colombo; Spanish Cristoval Colon), Genoese discoverer of America (1436?-1506).
- Fernando Magellan, Portuguese navigator (1470?-1521).
- William Caxton, English printer (1412?-1491).
- SAINT IGNATIUS DE LOYOLA, Spanish founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) (1491-1556).
- MARTIN LUTHER, leader of the German reformation (1483-1546).
- Philip Melanchthon, German Lutheran reformer (1497-1560).
- Ulrich Zwingle, Swiss reformer (1484-1531).
- JOHN CALVIN, French theologian (1509-1564).
- Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian (1560-1609).
- John Knox, Scotch religious reformer (1505-1572).
- Faustus Socinus, Italian theologian (1539-1604).
- Albrecht Durer, German painter and engraver (1471-1528).
- Antonio Allegri da Correggio, Italian painter (1494-1534).
- TITIAN, or Tiziano Vecellio, Venetian painter (1477-1576).
- RAPHAEL SANZIO, or Santi d’Urbino, Italian painter (1483-1520).
- MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI, Italian painter, sculptor, architect and poet (1474-1563).
- Hernando Cortez, Spanish conqueror of Mexico (1485-1547?).
- Thomas Wolsey, cardinal minister of Henry VIII. (1471-1530).
- Nicolo di Bernardo dei Macchiavelli, Italian statesman and author (1469-1527).
- Johan van Olden Barneveldt, Dutch statesman (1547-1619).
- Henry VIII., king of England (1491-1547).
- Henry IV., king of France and of Navarre (1553-1610).
- Elizabeth, queen of England (1533-1603).
- Francis I., king of France (1494-1547).
- CHARLES V., emperor of Germany and king of Spain (1500-1558).
- Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (1474-1533).
- Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch scholar (1467-1536).
- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, the greatest English dramatist (1564-1616).
- MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE, Seigneur, French essayist (1533-1592).
- MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Spanish novelist (1547-1616).
- Edmund Spenser, English poet (1553?-1599).
- Giordano Bruno, Italian anti-Christian writer (1550-1600).
- Luis Camoëns, Portuguese poet (1524-1597).
- Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (1544-1595).
- Ben Jonson, English dramatist (1573 or 1574-1637).
- Sir Thomas More, English poet, philosopher (1480-1535).
- FRANCIS BACON, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, English philosopher and essayist (1561-1626).
- NIKOLAUS COPERNICUS, German astronomer (1473-1543).
- Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (1546-1601).