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Paris Bordone Portrait of a Gentleman in armor with two pages. Oil on canvas. between 1520 and 1571, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Paris Bordone (Paris Paschalinus Bordone; 5 July 1500 – 19 January 1571) was an Italian painter of the Venetian Renaissance who, despite training with Titian, maintained a strand of Mannerist complexity and provincial vigor.
March 31 – Pietro Aldobrandini, Italian cardinal, archbishop (d. 1621) April 17 – Adam Contzen, German economist (d. 1635) April 22 – Giovanni Branca, Italian architect and engineer (d. 1645) April 24 – Sur Singh, Ruler of Marwar (d. 1619) May 11 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637) June 17 – Thomas Mun, English writer on ...
His intention was to marry Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Duke of Norfolk and to place her on the English throne. With the aid of John Lesley , bishop of Ross , he gained the consent of these high personages to the conspiracy, and then in 1571 he visited the Duke of Alva at Brussels , Pope Pius V at Rome , and Philip II at Madrid to explain to ...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (/ s ɜːr ˈ v æ n t iː z,-t ɪ z / sur-VAN-teez, -tiz; [5] Spanish: [miˈɣel de θeɾˈβantes saaˈβeðɾa]; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) [6] was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.
John Story (or Storey) (1504 – 1 June 1571) was an English Roman Catholic martyr and Member of Parliament.Story escaped to Flanders in 1563, but seven years later he was lured aboard a boat in Antwerp and abducted to England, where he was imprisoned in the Tower of London, and subsequently executed at Tyburn on a charge of treason.
Portrait of Girolamo Benzoni . Girolamo Benzoni (c. 1519—after 1572) was a Milanese merchant and adventurer who spent fifteen years in the New World. In 1565 he published an account of his travels, Historia del Mondo Nuovo, which included vivid descriptions of Spanish cruelty to the native populations.
This is a list of notable Italian writers, including novelists, essayists, poets, and other people whose primary artistic output was literature. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Heinrich Bullinger was born to Heinrich Bullinger Sr., a priest, and Anna Wiederkehr, at Bremgarten, Aargau, Switzerland. [2] Heinrich and Anna were able to live as husband and wife, even though not legally married, because the bishop of Constance, who had clerical oversight over Aargau, had unofficially sanctioned clerical concubinage by waiving penalties against the offense in exchange for ...