humanism

August 31, 2018
Sofonisba Anguissola: A Humanist Amongst Women

June 11, 2018
Born around 1430 in Ferrara, Cosmè Tura was the son of a shoemaker.

October 30, 2017
Famed humanist scholar, translator, and man of letters Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, better know as simply as Poggio, died 30 October 1459.

October 20, 2017
Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai was born on 20 October 1475 in Florence.

April 20, 2017
Leon Battista Alberti died on 20 April 1472 in Rome.

January 29, 2016
Giovanni Rubino, also known as “Dentone” (“Big Teeth”), is first documented in Padua on 29 January 1513, when he entered workshop of Giovanni d’Antonio Minello.

June 4, 2015
Papal secretary, historian, and antiquarian Flavio Biondo died on 4 June 1463 in Rome.

September 24, 2014
The classical scholar and poet Angelo Ambrogini, known as Poliziano, died on 24 September 1494 at the age of 40.

February 14, 2014
Happy Birthday Leon Battista Alberti!