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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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Pietro Aretino
1492 – 1557
Italian

Poet. Although he had friends in high places and wrote a conventional tragedy, he especially liked to affront the comfortable and the powerful.

Contemporaries
1449–1492Lorenzo de' Medici
1432–1519Leonardo da Vinci
1539–1604Faustus Socinus
1525–1562Laelius Socinus
1452–1498Girolamo Savonarola
1552–1610Matteo Ricci
1499–1565Pius IV
1463–1494Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
1450–1515Aldus Manutius
1469–1527Niccoló Machiavelli
1475–1521Leo X
1433–1499Marsilio Ficino
1451–1506Christopher Columbus
1500–1571Benvenuto Cellini
1478–1529Baldassare Castiglione
1469–1534Cajetan
1474–1557Sebastian Cabot
1425–1500John Cabot
1548–1600Giordano Bruno
1480–1519Lucrezia Borgia
1441–1494Matteo Boiardo
1515–1588Blandrata
1542–1621St. Robert Bellarmine
1474–1533Ludovico Ariosto