Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet
Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher
Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher
Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist
Theodorus Gaza, Greek humanist
Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher
Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer
Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist
Guillaume Philandrier, French humanist
Cornelius Valerius, Dutch humanist
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Italian humanist
Johannes Stabius, Austrian cartographer
Alfonso the Magnanimous, King of Aragon
Giorgio Vasari, Italian artist and author
Janos Zsamboky, Hungarian humanist
Christophe Plantin, French printer
Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Italian lawyer
Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician
Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian humanist
Humanist scholars in debate, 16th century
Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest
Title page of Politiae literariae, 1540
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1518)
Saint Albertus Magnus, German philosopher
Johann Faust, German printer
Frederick I Barbarossa Holy Roman Emperor
John Colet, English humanist
Devils and Hell's flames, 14th century
Boccaccio
Geoffrey Chaucer, English author and poet
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch theologian
Bonaventura Vulcanius, Dutch humanist
Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman
Leon Battista Alberti, Italian polymath
Christ's descent into Limbo, 14th century
Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch scholar
Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian writer
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1516)
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest
Pietro Bembo, Italian scholar
Charlemagne, first Holy Roman Emperor
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch humanist
John Colet, English humanist theologian
Simon Grynaeus, German theologian
Rudolph Snellius, Dutch mathematician
Creation of Adam from clay, 15th century
14th century theological cosmography
Camillo Benso, Italian statesman
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
King Henry II of England
Boiling in Hell, 14th century fresco
Emperor Maximillian, by Durer
Leonardo Fibonacci, Italian mathematician
Everardus Vorstius, Dutch physician
Robert Estienne, French printer
Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist
Building the Tower of Babel, 14th century
Albertus Magnus, Italian Dominican friar
Counting house, 14th-century manuscript
Atonius de Monte Ulmi, Italian physician
Romulus Augustus, last Roman Emperor
Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist
Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan
Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (1743-1795), Book Illustration from “Cagliostro, The Splendour and Misery of A Master of Magic”, Chapman and Hall LTD, W.R.H. Trowbridge, 1910
John Calvin, French theologian
Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian printer
Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc, astronomer
Italian breads
Desiderius Erasmus
Sir Thomas More, English statesman
Mary, Duchess of Burgundy
Ball game, 14th-century manuscript
Saint John Fisher
Flooding of the fibre caused by heavy rains.
“A Masonic Anecdote”, Alessandro di Cagliostro, after James Gillray Caricature, Book Illustration from “Cagliostro, The Splendour and Misery of A Master of Magic”, Chapman and Hall LTD, W.R.H. Trowbridge, 1910
Plague blessings, 14th-century manuscript
Jules Verne's 'From the Earth to the Moon' (1865)
Lorenza Seraphina Feliciani, Countess, Wife of Alessandro di Cagliostro, Book Illustration from “Cagliostro, The Splendour and Misery of A Master of Magic”, Chapman and Hall LTD, W.R.H. Trowbridge, 1910
Bust of Alessandro di Cagliostro, by Jean-Antoine Houdon, courtesy Messers. Hachette et Cie, Book Illustration from “Cagliostro, The Splendour and Misery of A Master of Magic”, Chapman and Hall LTD, W.R.H. Trowbridge, 1910
Pyrotechnist firing a rocket
Araticum ape, annona montana, artwork
Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist
Art restoration
Neptune fountain in Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy
Venice carnival mask
Glass blowing.
Nail makers workshop.
Torre del Mangia in Piazza del Campo, Siena, Tuscany, Italy,
Aristarchos of Samos, astronomer
St Inglevert jousting tournament, 1390
Distillation vessel, historical artwork
Illustration of a camera obscura
Czech Republic, South Bohemian Region, Ceske Budejovice, Exterior of Rabenstejn Tower
Italian bread
Restoration of Michelangelo's David
Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer
Johannes Trithemius, German polymath
Anne Hagopian, US art historian
Christopher Columbus, Genoese explorer
Drug testing in sport
Sir Thomas More
Martyrdom of John Hooper, 1555
Global business, conceptual artwork
Melampulach, Arab physician
Ismail I, Shah of Persia
Abyssinian priest, historical artwork
Rhubarb cultivation, 16th century
A stained glass artist in his studio.
Utopia
African artefact, 17th century
Pascal adding machine
Anaxagoras, Ancient Greek philosopher
1532 A war machine in the form of a horse
Exterior and sectional view of a glass works and furnace.
Cavalrymen with muskets, pistols and swords.
Cavalrymen with pistol.
The River Fisherman.
Bernard Abattia, French astrologer
A Firework display
Historical illustration of distillation
Distillation glassware historical artwork
Sebastian Cabot, Italian explorer
Alexander Pope, English poet
Statue of Romulus and Remus and the wolf, Pisa, Italy
End of film, conceptual artwork
European in the Americas, 16th century
The Dance of Death, 16th century
The Baptistry of St. John, Pisa, Italy
Strasbourg astronomical clock, France
African herbal tree, 16th century
Slovenia, Savinja, Celje, Fortified wall of Celje Castle
Spain, Balearic Islands, Mahon, Pont de Sant Roc gate
Germany, Bavaria, Nuremberg, Gothic spire of Schoner Brunnen fountain
Michelangelo's David, Florence, Italy
A WOODED MOUNTAIN SCENE.
1493 Nuremberg Chronicle Simon the magus
Jan Hus, Czech religious reformer
Rolling mill and forge
Dioscorides, Ancient Greek physician
ITALY: FLORENCE, c1500.
Garfield railroad construction, 1881
Richard Arkwright, British industrialist
Anaximenes, Ancient Greek philosopher
A Dandy-Horse
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British Poet
Michele Sanmicheli, Italian architect
John Milton, English poet
Painting titled 'Adoration of the Shepherds' by NiccolA2 di Pietro Gerini
Archimedes, Ancient Greek mathematician
Medical library
Bicycle accident
Blood transfusion clinic nurse
Newborn baby being bathed
Volterra, Historic Walled Hill Town, Tuscany, Italy
Woman with Italian flag painted
Caribbean millet brew, 16th century
South American cannibals, 16th century
Woman with Italian flag painted, hands clasped
Italian women making pasta
The tailor.
End of printing, conceptual artwork
Pineapple, 16th century
Cassava plant, 16th century
The Fox.
The Panther.
Italian haricot beans
South American tree, 16th century
Horse's skull, 16th century
Horse's hoof, 16th century
1532 A medieval dive helmet aqualung
1532 A medieval diving suit Vegetalius
Italian honey polenta
Pierre Belon, French naturalist