Girolamo Savonarola: Did you mean...?

Olympia Fulvia Morata (l. 1526-1555, also given as Olimpia) was an Italian scholar, poet, and writer who sought to advance the Protestant Reformation in Italy. She was considered one of the greatest classical scholars of her...

Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510 CE), real name Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, was an Italian artist of the early Renaissance. A prolific painter, especially of altarpieces and works with a religious theme, Botticelli's most famous...

The arrival in Europe of the printing press with moveable metal type in the 1450s CE was an event which had enormous and long-lasting consequences. The German printer Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1398-1468 CE...

Greek philosopher Pyrrho of Elis, engraving from the book Illustrium philosophorum et sapientum effigies ab eorum numistatibus extractae by Girolamo Olgiati, 1580.

Artistic depiction of Pre-Socratic philosopher Archelaus (fl. 5th century BCE) from the book Illustrium philosophorum et sapientum effigies ab eorum numistatibus extractae by Girolamo Olgiati, 1580.

An early modern reimagining of the philosopher Hipparchia of Maroneia (l. c. 350 – 280 BCE). From the 1580 CE book Illustrium philosophorum et sapientum effigies ab eorum numistatibus extractae, by Girolamo...

Saint Bruno, oil on panel by Girolamo Marchesi, c. 1525. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.

The germ theory, which emerged in the late 19th century, demonstrated that microscopic germs caused most human infectious diseases. The germs involved included bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, and prions. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895...

Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) was the most celebrated anatomist in Europe during the 16th century and a key figure of the Scientific Revolution. Vesalius' great work was his On the Fabric of the Human Body, which contains over...

The game of chess has a particularly long and fascinating history of more than 1500 years. Over the centuries, there have also been hundreds of different chess variants, all of which incorporate the...