Sculptor. A brilliant sculptor in stone and fabricator in precious metals, he loved fame, adulation, money, success, pleasure, lived a picaresque and sometimes violent life, and described it all in his hard to put down autobiography.
| 1432–1519 | Leonardo da Vinci |
| 1539–1604 | Faustus Socinus |
| 1525–1562 | Laelius Socinus |
| 1552–1610 | Matteo Ricci |
| 1499–1565 | Pius IV |
| 1487–1564 | Bernardino Ochino |
| 1450–1515 | Aldus Manutius |
| 1469–1527 | Niccoló Machiavelli |
| 1475–1521 | Leo X |
| 1568–1591 | Luigi St. Gonzaga |
| 1564–1642 | Galileo |
| 1451–1506 | Christopher Columbus |
| 1478–1529 | Baldassare Castiglione |
| 1568–1639 | Tommaso Campanella |
| 1469–1534 | Cajetan |
| 1474–1557 | Sebastian Cabot |
| 1425–1500 | John Cabot |
| 1548–1600 | Giordano Bruno |
| 1480–1519 | Lucrezia Borgia |
| 1515–1588 | Blandrata |
| 1542–1621 | St. Robert Bellarmine |
| 1474–1533 | Ludovico Ariosto |
| 1492–1557 | Pietro Aretino |
