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Males. John; William; James; Charles; George; Frank; Joseph; Thomas; Henry; Robert; Edward; Harry; Walter; Arthur; Fred; Albert; Samuel; David; Louis; Joe; Charlie ...
Leonardo da Vinci, the archetype of the Renaissance man. This is a list of notable people associated with the Renaissance. Artists and architects ...
Western historians during the Italian Renaissance or Northern Renaissance; those born post-1600 listed under "early modern" Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444), humanist historian; Flavio Biondo (1392–1463), humanist historian; Philippe de Commines (1447–1511), French historian; Robert Fabyan (died 1513), London alderman and chronicler
The list of the most popular boy names during the 1880s looks a lot like a list of royal lineage if you ask us, and John's reign was just getting started. W. Efatz / Wikimedia Commons.
The term rinascita ("rebirth") first appeared in Lives of the Artists (c. 1550) by Giorgio Vasari, while the corresponding French word renaissance was adopted into English as the term for this period during the 1830s. [4] [b] The Renaissance's intellectual basis was founded in its version of humanism, derived from the concept of Roman humanitas ...
One of the founders of modern Italy who led the Redshirts during the Risorgimento. As a youth, he served in military enterprises in Brazil, Uruguay and Europe. James Patrick Mahon: 1800–1891 1852–1858 1861–1877 Irish journalist and mercenary who fought in Europe, South America and United States during the mid-to late 19th century.
The early modern period is a subdivision of the most recent of the three major periods of European history: antiquity, the Middle Ages and the modern period. The term "early modern" was first proposed by medieval historian Lynn Thorndike in his 1926 work A Short History of Civilization as a broader alternative to the Renaissance.
The papacy continued to exercise significant diplomatic influence during the Early modern period. The Popes were frequently assembling Holy Leagues to assert Catholic supremacy in Europe. During the Renaissance, Julius II and Paul III were largely involved in the Italian Wars and worked to preserve their primacy among the Italian princes ...