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Great Lives from History: Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600

Table of Contents

Eastern Hemisphere




The Americas: Sixteenth Century European Settlements




Africa




Asia and East Africa: European Outposts in the Sixteenth Century




World Exploration in the Sixteenth Century




Europe




Rulers and Heads of State




Georgius Agricola




Akbar




Leon Battista Alberti




Afonso de Albuquerque




Alexander VI




Duke of Alva




Pedro de Alvarado




Andrea del Sarto




Ludovico Ariosto




Bābur




Francis Bacon




Vasco Núñez de Balboa




Chevalier de Bayard




Bayezid II




Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher




Giovanni Bellini




Sir Thomas Bodley




Anne Boleyn




Hieronymus Bosch




Sandro Botticelli




Tycho Brahe




Donato Bramante




Pieter Bruegel, the Elder




Giordano Bruno




Martin Bucer




William Byrd




Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca




John Cabot




John Calvin




Luís de Camões




The Carracci Family




Jacques Cartier




Catherine of Aragon




Catherine de Médicis




Thomas Cavendish




William Caxton




William Cecil




Benvenuto Cellini




George Chapman




Charles V




Charles the Bold




Clement VII




John Colet




Christopher Columbus




Nicolaus Copernicus




Francisco Vásquez de Coronado




Correggio




Hernán Cortés




Miles Coverdale




Pěro da Covilhã




Lucas Cranach, the Elder




Thomas Cranmer




Thomas Cromwell




John Davis




Bartolomeu Dias




Sir Francis Drake




Albrecht Dürer




Edward IV




Edward VI




Elizabeth I




Desiderius Erasmus




Alessandro Farnese




Guy Fawkes




Ferdinand II and Isabella I




Saint John Fisher




Sir John Fortescue




Girolamo Fracastoro




Francis I




Sir Martin Frobisher




Andrea Gabrieli




Giovanni Gabrieli




Vasco da Gama




Stephen Gardiner




Alberico Gentili




Conrad Gesner




Giorgione




Boris Godunov




El Greco




Sir Richard Grenville




Lady Jane Grey




Matthias Grünewald




Francesco Guicciardini




Henry IV




Henry VI




Henry VII




Henry VIII




Hans Holbein, the Younger




François Hotman




Catherine Howard




Huáscar




Ivan the Great




Ivan the Terrible




Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros




Saint John of the Cross




Julius II




John Knox




Bartolomé de Las Casas




Hugh Latimer




Leo X




Leonardo da Vinci




Pierre Lescot




Sir Thomas Littleton




Louis XI




Saint Ignatius of Loyola




Isaac ben Solomon Luria




Martin Luther




Niccolò Machiavelli




Ferdinand Magellan




Sir Thomas Malory




Andrea Mantegna




Manuel I




Marguerite de Navarre




Christopher Marlowe




Mary I




Mary, Queen of Scots




Matthias I Corvinus




Maximilian I




Lorenzo de’ Medici




Philipp Melanchthon




Pedro Menéndez de Avilés




Menno Simons




Gerardus Mercator




Michelangelo




Mohammed I Askia




Michel Eyquem de Montaigne




Montezuma II




Sir Thomas More




Philippe de Mornay




Nānak




John Napier




Thomas Nashe




Saint Philip Neri




Nezahualcóyotl




Nicholas of Cusa




Oda Nobunaga




Nostradamus




Johan van Oldenbarnevelt




Pachacuti




Andrea Palladio




Paracelsus




Matthew Parker




Catherine Parr




Paul III




Philip II




Philip the Magnanimous




Piero della Francesca




The Pinzón Brothers




Pius II




Pius V




Francisco Pizarro




Juan Ponce de León




François Rabelais




Sir Walter Ralegh




Raphael




Richard III




Nicholas Ridley




Pierre de Ronsard




First Earl of Salisbury




Jacopo Sansovino




Girolamo Savonarola




Joseph Justus Scaliger




Michael Servetus




Sesshū




Ludovico Sforza




William Shakespeare




Sir Philip Sidney




Diego de Siloé




Hernando de Soto




Edmund Spenser




Süleyman the Magnificent




Torquato Tasso




Saint Teresa of Ávila




Tintoretto




Titian




Tomás de Torquemada




Toyotomi Hideyoshi




The Tudor Family




William Tyndale




Giorgio Vasari




Paolo Veronese




Andrea del Verrocchio




Andreas Vesalius




Amerigo Vespucci




François Villon




Francisco de Vitoria




Wang Yangming




Earl of Warwick




William the Silent




Cardinal Thomas Wolsey




Saint Francis Xavier




Huldrych Zwingli




Isaac ben Judah Abravanel




Barbe Acarie




José de Acosta




Adrian VI




Afonso I




Mateo Alemán




Amina Sarauniya Zazzua




Isabella Andreini




Saint Angela Merici




Sofonisba Anguissola




Anne of Brittany




Anne of Cleves




Pietro Aretino




Jacobus Arminius




Anne Askew




Askia Daud




Atahualpa




Barbarossa




Elizabeth Báthory




Lady Margaret Beaufort




Pierre Belon




Bess of Hardwick




Boabdil




Cesare Borgia




Lucrezia Borgia




Sophie Brahe




George Buchanan




Sebastian Cabot




Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo




Caravaggio




Gerolamo Cardano




Baldassare Castiglione




Saint Catherine of Genoa




Andrea Cesalpino




Charles VII




Charles VIII




Vittoria Colonna




Cuauhtémoc




John Dee




Deganawida




Diane de Poitiers




John Dowland




Joachim du Bellay




Juan Sebastián de Elcano




Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente




Marsilio Ficino




Lavinia Fontana




Frederick III




Leonhard Fuchs




Sir Humphrey Gilbert




William Gilbert




Gregory XIII




Edmund Grindal




Guacanagarí




Charlotte Guillard




Gustav I Vasa




Richard Hakluyt




Catharina van Hemessen




Henry II




Henry III




Henry IV of Castile




Juan de Herrera




Hiawatha




Hōjō Ujimasa




Richard Hooker




Hosokawa Gracia




Balthasar Hubmaier




Humāyūn




Ibrāhīm Lodī




İbrahim Paşa




Isabella d’Este




James III




James IV




James V




John II




John III




Josquin des Prez




Kalicho




Joseph ben Ephraim Karo




Kenau Hasselaer




Krishnadevaraya




Aemilia Lanyer




Orlando di Lasso




Le Thanh Tong




Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples




Miguel López de Legazpi




Earl of Leicester




Leo Africanus




Michel de L’Hospital




Louis XII




Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Karīm al-Maghīlī




Aldus Manutius




Luca Marenzio




Margaret of Austria




Margaret of Parma




Doña Marina




Mary of Burgundy




Mary of Guise




Mary of Hungary




Maximilian II




Cosimo I de’ Medici




Mehmed II




Mehmed III




Bernardino de Mendoza




Ana de Mendoza y de la Cerda




Thomas Morley




Ōgimachi




Oichi




Grace O’Malley




Sophia Palaeologus




Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina




Pemisapan




Georg von Peuerbach




Giovanni Pico della Mirandola




Tomé Pires




Qāytbāy




Peter Ramus




Rheticus




Matteo Ricci




Rudolf II




Sebastian




Jane Seymour




Caterina Sforza




Sigismund I, the Old




Sigismund II Augustus




Sixtus IV




Sixtus V




First Duke of Somerset




Sonni ‘Alī




Stephen Báthory




Simon Stevin




Thomas Tallis




Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia




Tascalusa




Marietta Robusti Tintoretto




Vasily III




Vlad III the Impaler




Vladislav II




Xiaozong




Zara Yaqob




Zhengde




Chronological List of Entries in Great Lives from History: The Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600




Geographical Index for Great Lives from History: The Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600




Category Index for Great Lives from History: The Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600




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