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Gutenberg put his press to commercial use, producing thousands of indulgences for the Church. Gutenberg's press was the combined effort of several discoveries and inventions. -
Leonardo da Vinci was a Florentine polymath of the Italian Renaissance. He was simultaneously a painter, anatomist, architect, paleontologist, botanist, writer, sculptor, philosopher, engineer, inventor, musician, poet, and urban planner.
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It was a historical event that put an end to the last vestige of the Eastern Roman Empire and which, in classical periodization and according to some historians, also marked the end of the Middle Ages in Europe. -
On October 12, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus made landfall in what is now the Bahamas. Columbus and his ships landed on an island that the native Lucayan people called Guanahani. -
France invaded Italy in 1494 because the King of France, Charles VIII, had a claim to the Kingdom of Naples and was encouraged to act on it by Pope Innocent VIII, who was in a dispute with Naples.
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The Prince represents Machiavelli's effort to provide a guide for political action based on the lessons of history and his own experience as a foreign secretary in Florence. -
At the age of 71, Michelangelo received the greatest and final commission of his life. Pope Paul III appointed him chief architect of the sprawling St. Peter's Basilica. -
Was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799.