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Great Lives from History: The Renaissance & Early Modern Era Table of Contents Publisher's Note, ix Contributors, xiii Key to Pronunciation, xix List of Maps, Tables, and Sidebars, xxv Maps of the Renaissance and Early Modern Era, xxix A Isaac ben Judah Abravanel, 1 Barbe Acarie, 3 José de Acosta, 5 Adrian VI, 7 Afonso I, 9 Georgius Agricola, 11 Akbar, 15 Leon Battista Alberti, 18 Afonso de Albuquerque, 22 Mateo Alemán, 25 Alexander VI, 27 Duke of Alva, 31 Pedro de Alvarado, 34 Amina Sarauniya Zazzua, 37 Andrea del Sarto, 39 Isabella Andreini, 42 Saint Angela Merici, 44 Sofonisba Anguissola, 46 Anne of Brittany, 48 Anne of Cleves, 51 Pietro Aretino, 53 Ludovico Ariosto, 56 Jacobus Arminius, 59 Anne Askew, 62 Askia Daud, 64 Atahualpa, 66 B Bābur, 69 Francis Bacon, 72 Vasco Núñez de Balboa, 76 Barbarossa, 79 Elizabeth Báthory, 81 Chevalier de Bayard, 84 Bayezid II, 87 Lady Margaret Beaufort, 90 Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, 92 Giovanni Bellini, 97 Pierre Belon, 101 Bess of Hardwick, 103 Boabdil, 105 Sir Thomas Bodley, 108 Anne Boleyn, 111 Cesare Borgia, 114 Lucrezia Borgia, 117 Hieronymus Bosch, 120 Sandro Botticelli, 123 Sophie Brahe, 126 Tycho Brahe, 128 Donato Bramante, 132 Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, 135 Giordano Bruno, 138 Martin Bucer, 142 George Buchanan, 146 William Byrd, 148 C Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, 152 John Cabot, 155 Sebastian Cabot, 159 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, 161 John Calvin, 163 Luís de Camões, 167 Caravaggio, 170 Gerolamo Cardano, 172 The Carracci Family, 175 Jacques Cartier, 178 Baldassare Castiglione, 181 Catherine de Médicis, 184 Catherine of Aragon, 187 Saint Catherine of Genoa, 191 Thomas Cavendish, 193 William Caxton, 196 William Cecil, 199 Benvenuto Cellini, 202 Miguel de Cervantes, 206 Andrea Cesalpino, 211 George Chapman, 213 Charles the Bold, 217 Charles V, 220 Charles VII, 224 Charles VIII, 227 Clement VII, 229 John Colet, 232 Vittoria Colonna, 235 Christopher Columbus, 237 Nicolaus Copernicus, 241 Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, 245 Correggio, 249 Hernán Cortés, 252 Miles Coverdale, 255 Pêro da Covilhã, 259 Lucas Cranach, the Elder, 262 Thomas Cranmer, 266 Thomas Cromwell, 269 Cuauhtémoc, 273 D John Davis, 276 John Dee, 278 Deganawida, 281 Diane de Poitiers, 283 Bartolomeu Dias, 286 John Dowland, 289 Sir Francis Drake, 291 Joachim du Bellay, 294 Albrecht Dürer, 297 E Edward IV, 301 Edward VI, 303 Juan Sebastián de Elcano, 307 Elizabeth I, 310 Desiderius Erasmus, 314 F Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente, 319 Alessandro Farnese, 321 Guy Fawkes, 324 Ferdinand II and Isabella I, 328 Marsilio Ficino, 332 Saint John Fisher, 335 Lavinia Fontana, 338 Sir John Fortescue, 340 Girolamo Fracastoro, 343 Francis I, 346 Frederick III, 350 Sir Martin Frobisher, 352 Leonhard Fuchs, 356 G Andrea Gabrieli, 359 Giovanni Gabrieli, 362 Vasco da Gama, 365 Stephen Gardiner, 368 Alberico Gentili, 372 Conrad Gesner, 375 Sir Humphrey Gilbert, 378 William Gilbert, 381 Giorgione, 383 Boris Godunov, 387 El,Greco, 390 Gregory XIII, 393 Sir Richard Grenville, 396 Lady Jane Grey, 399 Edmund Grindal, 402 Matthias Grünewald, 405 Guacanagarí, 408 Francesco Guicciardini, 410 Charlotte Guillard, 413 Gustav I Vasa, 415 H Richard Hakluyt, 419 Catharina van Hemessen, 421 Henry II, 423 Henry III, 426 Henry IV, 429 Henry IV of Castile, 432 Henry VI, 434 Henry VII, 438 Henry VIII, 441 Juan de Herrera, 445 Hiawatha, 448 Hōjō Ujimasa, 451 Hans Holbein, the Younger, 453 Richard Hooker, 457 Hosokawa Gracia, 459 François Hotman, 461 Catherine Howard, 466 Huáscar, 469 Balthasar Hubmaier, 472 Humāyūn, 475 I Ibrāhīm Lodī, 478 İbrahim Pala, 480 Saint Ignatius of Loyola, 482 Isabella d'Este, 485 Ivan the Great, 487 Ivan the Terrible, 492 J James III, 496 James IV, 498 James V, 501 Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, 503 Saint John of the Cross, 507 John II, 511 John III, 513 Josquin des Prez, 515 Julius II, 518 K Kalicho, 522 Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, 524 Kenau Hasselaer, 526 John Knox, 528 Krishnadevaraya, 532 L Aemilia Lanyer, 535 Bartolomé de Las Casas, 537 Orlando di Lasso, 540 Hugh Latimer, 543 Le Thanh Tong, 546 Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, 548 Miguel López de Legazpi, 550 Earl of Leicester, 553 Leo Africanus, 555 Leo X, 557 Leonardo da Vinci, 561 Pierre Lescot, 565 Michel de L'Hospital, 568 Sir Thomas Littleton, 570 Louis XI, 574 Louis XII, 577 Isaac ben Solomon Luria, 579 Martin Luther, 582 M Niccolò Machiavelli, 587 Ferdinand Magellan, 591 Muhammad ibn Abd al-Karīm al-Maghīlī, 595 Sir Thomas Malory, 598 Andrea Mantegna, 601 Manuel I, 605 Aldus Manutius, 608 Luca Marenzio, 610 Margaret of Austria, 612 Margaret of Parma, 615 Marguerite de Navarre, 617 Doña Marina, 621 Christopher Marlowe, 623 Mary, Queen of Scots, 627 Mary of Burgundy, 631 Mary of Guise, 633 Mary of Hungary, 636 Mary I, 639 Matthias I Corvinus, 642 Maximilian I, 646 Maximilian II, 650 Cosimo I de' Medici, 653 Lorenzo de' Medici, 655 Mehmed II, 659 Mehmed III, 661 Philipp Melanchthon, 664 Bernardino de Mendoza, 668 Ana de Mendoza y de la Cerda, 670 Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, 672 Menno Simons, 675 Gerardus Mercator, 678 Michelangelo, 682 Mohammed I Askia, 686 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 689 Montezuma II, 693 Sir Thomas More, 697 Thomas Morley, 701 Philippe de Mornay, 703 N Nānak, 707 John Napier, 710 Thomas Nashe, 714 Saint Philip Neri, 717 Nezahualcóyotl, 720 Nicholas of Cusa, 724 Nostradamus, 728 O Oda Nobunaga, 732 Ōbgimachi, 735 Oichi, 737 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, 740 Grace O'Malley, 743 P Pachacuti, 746 Sophia Palaeologus, 749 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 751 Andrea Palladio, 753 Paracelsus, 757 Matthew Parker, 761 Catherine Parr, 764 Paul III, 767 Pemisapan, 771 Georg von Peuerbach, 773 Philip the Magnanimous, 775 Philip II, 778 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, 782 Piero della Francesca, 785 The Pinzón Brothers, 789 Tomé Pires, 792 Pius II, 794 Pius V, 797 Francisco Pizarro, 800 Juan Ponce de León, 803 Q Qāytbāy, 807 R François Rabelais, 809 Sir Walter Ralegh, 813 Peter Ramus, 817 Raphael, 819 Rheticus, 823 Matteo Ricci, 825 Richard III, 828 Nicholas Ridley, 833 Pierre de Ronsard, 837 Rudolf II, 840 S First Earl of Salisbury, 844 Jacopo Sansovino, 847 Girolamo Savonarola, 850 Joseph Justus Scaliger, 855 Sebastian, 859 Michael Servetus, 861 Sesshū, 865 Jane Seymour, 868 Caterina Sforza, 870 Ludovico Sforza, 872 William Shakespeare, 876 Sir Philip Sidney, 881 Sigismund I, the Old, 885 Sigismund II Augustus, 887 Diego de Siloé, 890 Sixtus IV, 893 Sixtus V, 895 First Duke of Somerset, 898 Sonni Alī, 900 Hernando de Soto, 902 Edmund Spenser, 906 Stephen Báthory, 910 Simon Stevin, 912 Süleyman the Magnificent, 914 T Thomas Tallis, 918 Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, 920 Tascalusa, 922 Torquato Tasso, 924 Saint Teresa of Ávila, 928 Tintoretto, 931 Marietta Robusti Tintoretto, 935 Titian, 936 Tomás de Torquemada, 939 Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 943 The Tudor Family, 946 William Tyndale, 949 U V Giorgio Vasari, 953 Vasily III, 957 Paolo Veronese, 959 Andrea del Verrocchio, 962 Andreas Vesalius, 965 Amerigo Vespucci, 969 François Villon, 973 Francisco de Vitoria, 978 Vlad III the Impaler, 981 Vladislav II, 983 W Wang Yangming, 986 Earl of Warwick, 989 William the Silent, 993 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, 996 X Saint Francis Xavier, 1000 Xiaozong, 1003 Y Z Zara Yaqob, 1006 Zhengde, 1008 Huldrych Zwingli, 1010 Rulers and Dynasties, 1017 Chronological List of Entries, 1060 Category Index, 1066 Geographical Index, 1072 Personages Index, III Subject Index, XIX |
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