| |Rome, Italy |Petrarch | | | |Boccaccio | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Africa & East |Hafiz (Persia) | | +--------------+---------------------+ | 1450 |Britain |Caxton | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Rome, Italy |Da Vinci | | +--------------+---------------------+ | 1500 |Britain |Knox | | | |Latimer | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |France |Rabelais | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Germany |Luther | | | |Copernicus | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Switzerland |Calvin | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Rome, Italy |Columbus | | | |Savonarola | | | |Machiavelli | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Spain |Ignatius Loyola | | | |St. Theresa | | | |Ferdnd. & Isabella | | | |Cortez | | +--------------+---------------------+ | 1550 |Britain |Philip Sidney | | | |Spenser | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |France |Montaigne | | | |Scaliger | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Rome, Italy |Cellini | | | |Tasso | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Spain |Alva | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Netherlands |William the Silent | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Russia |Ivan the Terrible | | +--------------+---------------------+ | 1600 |Britain |Shakespeare | | | |Raleigh | | | |Bacon | | | |Jonson | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |France |Corneille | | | |Richelieu | | | |Descartes | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Germany |Kepler | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Rome, Italy |Galileo | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Spain |Cervantes | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Scandinavia |Gustavus Adolphus | | +--------------+---------------------+