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18 May 1474 - Birth of Isabella d'Este.She was Marchesa of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural and political figure. She was a patron of the arts as well as a leader of fashion, whose innovative style of...

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17 May 1444-Birth of Sandro Botticelli, painter Primavera (c. 1482): icon of the springtime renewal of the Florentine Renaissance, also at the summer palazzo of Pierfrancesco de' Medici, as a companion piece to the Birth of Venus and Pallas and the Centaur....

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medici

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16 May 1412- Giovanni Maria Visconti,duke of Milan was stabbed to death at the door of a church 16 May 1527 – The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.

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borgia

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15 May 1252-Torturing People for Confessions Authorized by Pope Innocent IV 15 May 1455-Crusade Against Turks Proclaimed by Pope Calixtus III

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14 May 1493-Death of Nannina de' Medici,born Lucrezia de' Medici, she was the third daughter of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici and Lucrezia Tornabuoni. She was thus the elder sister of Lorenzo de' Medici. She married Bernardo Rucellai. Her father's name was...

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alexander VI, borgia

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13 May 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola

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12 May 1590 -Birth of Cosimo II de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

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alexander VI, borgia

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The Borgia Apartments Detail of fresco Resurrection showing Alexander VI in prayer painted by Pinturicchio

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10 May 1499-Marriage of Cesare Borgia and Charlotte of Albret PORTRAIT OF LUCREZIA BORGIA BY HENDRIK VAN THE ELDER BALEN

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borgia, medici, orsini, pope innocent IV, pope pius III

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9 May 1244-Pope Innocent IV Condemns Jews in Papal Bull 9 May 1439-Birth of Pope Pius III 9 May 1446 - Death of Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples She was the daughter of John of Enghien, Count of Castro, and Sancia Del Balzo and the mother of Caterina...

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