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This category lists sites dedicated to people of historical significance who lived during the sixteenth century dating from 1500 to 1599.

Subcategories

• Buonarroti, Michelangelo
• Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nuñez
• Cabral, Pedro Alvares
• Calvin, John
• Camões, Luis Vaz de
• Copernicus, Nicolas
• Cortés, Hernán
• Drake, Sir Francis
• Henry VIII, King of England
• Luther, Martin
• Magellan, Ferdinand
• Mary I
• Montaigne, Michel de
• Nostradamus
• Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
• Saint Ignatius of Loyola
• Saint Thomas More

Resources in This Category

• Emperor Charles V

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03625a.htm
  Article about the greatest of all the Habsburg emperors.

• Francis I of France

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_I_of_France
  Considered France's first Renaissance king.

• Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century

  http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=6399205
  The complete text of book by Sidney Lee, 1904 by subscription.

• Hans Mayr: The Voyage and Acts of Dom Francisco, 1505-

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1505mayr.asp
  An essay on African activities.

• Letters of Philip II, King of Spain

  http://lib.byu.edu/digital/phil2/
  Correspondence mainly to Don Diego de Orellana de Chaves, Royal Governor of Spain's northern coast, dated from the time of naval war against England and France, 1592-1597.

• Mikolaj Rej: The Father of Polish Literature

  http://culture.polishsite.us/articles/art343.html
  A biography on the 500th anniversary of his birth.

• Philip II

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12002a.htm
  Biographical article.

• Pierre de Ronsard

  http://www.lepg.org/ronsard.htm
  Brief biography with selection of works.

• Sigismund I the Old

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_I_the_Old
  Life of the king of Poland

• Suleyman

  http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Suleyman.html
  Biography of one known as the Lawgiver and the Magnificent.

• William The Silent: Father of the Netherlands

  http://www.prca.org/books/portraits/william.htm
  Biographical sketches.

Other Languages

• Italian

 

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