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Great Lives from History: The Renaissance & Early Modern Era

Editor: Christina J. Moose
ISBN: 978-1-58765-211-0
List Price: $175

April 2005 · 2 volumes · 1,129 pages · 8"x10"

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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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