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He was an italian statesman.de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.He was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists, and poets.
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It was the first major book printed using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe.
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Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three small ships, the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina. On October 12, the expedition reached land, probably Watling Island in the Bahamas.
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David is a 5.17-metre marble statue of a naked man. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence.
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The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci.It has been described as the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world.
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He is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513.
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The 95 Theses is a list of questions and propositions for debate.
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He was a spanish soldier turned priest.The first Jesuits Ignatius and six of his students took vows of poverty and chastity and made plans to work for the conversion of Muslims. Under Ignatius' charismatic leadership, the Society of Jesus grew quickly.
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John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion is a defining book of the Reformation and a pillar of Protestant theology.
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Before he died he proved that the earth revolved around the sun in his book.
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He was an English poet, playwright and actor.Some of his most famous are Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet.
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Galileo Galilei discovered that the density of liquids reacts predictably to changes in temperature. Armed with this discovery, he invented a device that allowed temperature variations to be measured.
