Top People in Values
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Individuals who have had a major impact on the History of Values including our picks for the Top 100
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Ludovico Ariosto
1474 – 1533
Italian

Poet. Among other themes, he celebrated the legendary heroism of Roland (reinterpreted as Orlando in Orlando Furioso).

Contemporaries
1449–1492Lorenzo de' Medici
1432–1519Leonardo da Vinci
1525–1562Laelius Socinus
1452–1498Girolamo Savonarola
1499–1565Pius IV
1463–1494Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
1487–1564Bernardino Ochino
1450–1515Aldus Manutius
1469–1527Niccoló Machiavelli
1475–1521Leo X
1433–1499Marsilio Ficino
1451–1506Christopher Columbus
1500–1571Benvenuto Cellini
1478–1529Baldassare Castiglione
1474–1557Sebastian Cabot
1425–1500John Cabot
1480–1519Lucrezia Borgia
1441–1494Matteo Boiardo
1515–1588Blandrata
1492–1557Pietro Aretino