Francesco Petrarca, commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was a scholar and poet of Renaissance Italy who was one of the earliest humanists. His rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Renaissance. Petrarch is often considered the founder of Humanism. In the 16th century, Pietro Bembo created the model for the modern Italian language based on Petrarch's works, as well as those of Giovanni Boccaccio, and, to a lesser extent, Dante Alighieri. Petrarch would be later endorsed as a model for Italian style by the Accademia della Crusca.
Cosimo I de' Medici was the second Duke of Florence from 1537 until 1569, when he became the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, a title he held until his death.
Franciscus Patricius was a philosopher and scientist from the Republic of Venice of Croatian descent. He was known as a defender of Platonism and an opponent of Aristotelianism. In Croatia he is mostly referred to as Franjo Petriš or Frane Petrić. His family name in Cres was known as Petris.
In art history, "Old Master" refers to any painter of skill who worked in Europe before about 1800, or a painting by such an artist. An "old master print" is an original print made by an artist in the same period. The term "old master drawing" is used in the same way.
Cristóbal de Morales was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance. He is generally considered to be the most influential Spanish composer before Tomás Luis de Victoria.
{{Infobox writer | name = Vitsentzos Kornaros | image = Thysia tou Abraam exwfyllo.jpg | caption = Cover of The Sacrifice of Abraham by Vitsentzos Kornaros | birth_name = Vincenzo Cornaro | birth_date = 1553 | birth_place = Trapezonda, Sitia,
Kingdom of Candia | death_date = 1613/1614 | death_place = Candia, Kingdom of Candia | nationality = [[Cretan]Cretan] | movement = Cretan Renaissance, Cretan literature | notableworks = Erotokritos, The Sacrifice of Abraham }} Vitsentzos or Vikentios Kornaros or Vincenzo Cornaro was a Cretan poet, who wrote the romantic epic poem Erotokritos. He wrote in vernacular Cretan dialect, and was a leading figure of the Cretan Renaissance.
The Italian Catholic Diocese of Vallo della Lucania, in Campania, has existed under this name since 1945. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno.
Giovanni Salviati was a Florentine diplomat and cardinal. He was papal legate in France, and conducted negotiations with the Emperor Charles V.
The year 1553 in art involved some significant events and new works.
The year 1510 in art involved some significant events and new works.
The year 1505 in art involved some significant events and new works.
The decade of the 1490s in art involved some significant events.
The decade of the 1480s in art involved some significant events.
The decade of the 1470s in art involved some significant events.
The decade of the 1460s in art involved some significant events.
Lucrezia Maria Romola de' Medici was an Italian noblewoman, the eldest daughter of Lorenzo de' Medici and Clarice Orsini and mother of Maria Salviati and Giovanni Salviati. Her portrait was considered as the baby Jesus in Our Lady of the Magnificat of Sandro Botticelli.
Renaissance Ensemble Serbia is the first early music ensemble in Serbia and the second in south-eastern Europe, having been founded in 1968. Ensemble Renaissance usually focuses on the music of the Middle ages, Renaissance and Baroque. Occasionally, however, Ensemble performs modern music on ancient instruments.
Jean du Thiers, seigneur de Beauvoir was Minister of Finance for Henry II of France, and a Secretary of State.
Francesco Signorelli (c.1495–1553) was a 16th-century Italian Renaissance painter.
