Vincenzo Scamozzi was an Italian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Republic of Venice area in the second half of the 16th century. He was perhaps the most important figure there between Andrea Palladio, whose unfinished projects he inherited at Palladio's death in 1580, and Baldassarre Longhena, Scamozzi's only pupil.
Girolamo Diruta was an Italian organist, music theorist, and composer. He was famous as a teacher, for his treatise Il Transilvano on counterpoint, and for his part in the development of keyboard technique, particularly on the organ. He was born in Deruta, near Perugia.
Girolamo Ruscelli (1518–1566) was an Italian mathematician and cartographer active in Venice during the early 16th century. He was also an alchemist, writing pseudonymously as Alessio Piemontese.
Events from the year 1520 in art.
Giovanni Antonio Magini was an Italian astronomer, astrologer, cartographer, and mathematician.
The year 1610 in music involved some significant events.
Giovanni Giacomo de Antiquis was an Italian composer, choral conductor, voice teacher, and anthologist.
Events from the year 1533 in art.
The decade of the 1530s in music involved some significant events, publications, compositions, births, and deaths.
Lazzaro Bastiani was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice.
Marco Boschini (1602–1681) was an Italian painter and engraver of the early Baroque period in Venice.
Cesare Vecellio was an Italian engraver and painter of the Renaissance, active in Venice.
Scipione Barbò Soncino, or Scipione Barbuo, was a 16th-century Italian jurist and writer, active in Padua. His best-known work was a set of biographies of the Dukes of Milan, Sommario delle vite de' duchi di Milano, which was illustrated with engravings by Girolamo Porro.
Tomaso Porcacchi Castilione (1530–1576) was an author and cartographer.
Giuseppe Leggiadri Gallani was an Italian poet and dramatist. He was a native of Parma in the era of the rule of the Farnese family.
Nicoletta Pasquale, known also as Coletta Pasquale or Paschale was an Italian poet.
Pietro Paolo Borrono, or Petro Paulo da Milano or Petter Paul Borrono was an Italian composer and lutenist of the renaissance.
Lucia Albani Avogadro was an Italian poet, member of the Albani family.
