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15th Century historical figures
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22 figures
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, inventor & scientist
Joan of Arc
Military leader & saint
Henry VIII
King of England
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Michelangelo
Sculptor, painter & architect
Sandro Botticelli
Painter
Vasco da Gama
Explorer & navigator
Ferdinand Magellan
Explorer & navigator
Christopher Columbus
Explorer & navigator
Gustav Vasa
King of Sweden
Suleiman the Magnificent
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Vlad the Impaler
Voivode of Wallachia
Stephen the Great
Voivode of Moldavia
Niccolò Machiavelli
Political theorist and diplomat
Skanderbeg
Military leader
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Girolamo Savonarola
Friar & political leader of Florence
Lorenzo de' Medici
De facto ruler of Florence & patron of the arts
Cesare Borgia
Cardinal & military commander
Pope Julius II
Pope & patron of the arts
Raphael
Painter & architect
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Titian
Painter
Askia Muhammad I
Emperor of the Songhai Empire
Francysk Skaryna
Humanist, physician & printer
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