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"Rebirth" a philosophical and artistic movement and the era when that movement flourished.
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Fransesco Petrarch is born
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Flourence was able to defend itself from Milanses invasion
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Nicolo Machiovelli is born
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Baldasar Castiglione is born
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Nicolo Machiavelli, a Flourentine diplomat wrote the essay "The Prince"
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Thomas more publishes "Utopia"
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Luther challenges Tetzel for his grave error of asking his people to give up money for false promises of forgivness.
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Martin Luther openly disagrees with many church doctrines.
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Castiglione published one of the most famous books during the renaissance, the "book of the Courtier"