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October 15, 2017
Publius Vergilius Maro – better known as the Roman poet Virgil – was born 15 October 70 BCE.

May 27, 2017
Ludovico (Maria) Sforza, Duke of Milan, died 27 May 1508 (aged 55).

May 13, 2017
On May 13, 1497, Savonarola was excommunicated by Pope Alexander VI.

April 15, 2017
Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452 , in the Tuscan village of Vinci, an illegitimate son of a local lawyer.

May 17, 2016
The finale of a famed Florentine: Early Renaissance painter Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli, died 17 May 1510.

January 27, 2016
Dante Alighieri (b. Florence 22 May-13 June 1265, d. Ravenna 14 September 1321) was first banished from Florence on this day, 27 January in 1302.

January 6, 2014
Today is the Feast day of the Epiphany.