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Guglielmo Pepe
A southern Italian general whose campaigns connected the constitutional revolution in Naples with the defense of Venice.
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Guido of Arezzo
Guido helped singers learn unfamiliar chant through written pitch and a system of memorable syllables.
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Horace
Horace adapted Greek lyric forms to Roman life, writing about friendship and mortality within the political world of Augustus.
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Jacopo Sansovino
Sansovino reshaped the civic center of Venice through architecture that joined classical forms, sculpture, and public ceremony.
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Joseph Louis Lagrange
Lagrange developed mathematical methods that expressed mechanics through general equations rather than separate solutions for each machine or motion.
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Julius Caesar
Caesar used conquest, political alliances, and civil war to gain powers that the Republican system could no longer contain.
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Leon Battista Alberti
Alberti explained painting and architecture as intellectual disciplines and adapted ancient forms to the needs of Renaissance patrons.
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Lorenzo Ghiberti
Ghiberti’s bronze doors for Florence’s Baptistery turn biblical narrative into scenes of shifting space and finely worked relief.
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Lorenzo Valla
Valla used the history of Latin to expose the Donation of Constantine as a document written centuries after the events it claimed to record.
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Lorenzo de' Medici
Lorenzo the Magnificent combined political control, diplomacy, poetry, and patronage in fifteenth-century Florence.
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Luca della Robbia
Luca della Robbia developed glazed terracotta sculpture alongside a career in marble, including Florence Cathedral’s singing gallery.
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Lucretius
A Roman poet who used Epicurean explanations of nature to confront fear of the gods and of death.
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Ludovico Antonio Muratori
Muratori made medieval chronicles and documents available in large editions that changed the basis of historical research.
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Ludovico Ariosto
Ariosto’s Orlando furioso follows wandering knights through a world where desire repeatedly defeats orderly plans.
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Luigi Carlo Farini
Farini helped bring the central Italian provinces into the Savoy state and briefly led the government of the new Kingdom of Italy.
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Luigi Luzzatti
Luzzatti promoted cooperative credit and religious liberty, with a brief premiership forming only one part of his public career.
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Marcantonio Colonna
The commander of the papal fleet at Lepanto, whose career linked Roman noble power with Spanish service.
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Marco Polo
Marco Polo’s account of travel through Mongol Asia combined personal experience, reported information, and the craft of a second writer.
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