Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

male, deceased (1375)
chivalry, Italian Renaissance writer, from the Province of Florence, Renaissance Latin author, Christian, decameron…Fromflorence
Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 - December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important...
Maso Finiguerra

Maso Finiguerra

male, deceased (1464)
drawing, Italian, Goldsmith, engraver, printmaking, Fromflorence
Maso Tommasoii Finiguerra (1426 - 1464), was an Italy goldsmith, draftsman, and engraver working in Florence, whose name is distinguished in the...
Lorenzo De' Medici

Lorenzo De' Medici

male, deceased (1492)
lorenzo the magnificent, Italian Renaissance humanist, Patron of literature, House of Medici, Fromflorence, Italian Renaissance…Ruler of Florence
Lorenzo de' Medici (January 1, 1449 - 9 April, 1492) was an Italian statesman and ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance....
Donatello

Donatello

male, deceased (1466)
sculptor, Renaissance sculptor, Italian, artist, florentine, Renaissance…Fromflorence
Donatello was a famous early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence. He became well recognized for his creation of the shallow...
Domenico Ghirlandaio

Domenico Ghirlandaio

male, deceased (1494)
painter, Renaissance painter, Italian, florentine, Tuscan painter, Renaissance…Fromflorence
Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449 - January 11, 1494) was a renowned Florentine Renaissance painter, a contemporary of Botticelli and Filippino Lippi. His...
Paolo Uccello

Paolo Uccello

male, deceased (1475)
Tuscan painter, perspective, Italian, florentine, painter, Fromflorence
Paolo Uccello was an Italian painter who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. Giorgio Vasari in his book "Lives of the...

Niccolò Machiavelli

male, deceased (1527)
Italian statesmen, Italian Renaissance writer, Italian Renaissance humanist, Roman Catholic, realist, Republicanism…Fromflorence, born in Florence, Italy
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet, and romantic comedic playwright. He is a figure of the I...
Cosimo De' Medici

Cosimo De' Medici

male, deceased (1464)
banker, Fromflorence, ramkesh, Medici, Ruler of Florence, Italian nobility
Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici (September 27, 1389 - August 1, 1464), was the first of the Medici political dynasty, rulers of Florence during most...
Brunetto Latini

Brunetto Latini

male, deceased (1294)
Italian, Sienese, sodomy, siena, politician, Guelphs and Ghibellines…Fromflorence
Brunetto Latini (c. 1220-1294), who signed his name "Burnectus Latinus" in Latin and "Burnecto Latino" in Italian, was an Italian philosopher,...
Taddeo Gaddi

Taddeo Gaddi

male, deceased (1366)
from the Province of Florence, Gothic painter, Tuscan painter, Italian, architect, Renaissance painter…Fromflorence
Taddeo Gaddi (c. 1300-1366) was an Italian painter and architect, active during the early Renaissance. As a painter, he created altar-pieces and...