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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Isabella d'Este, Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, George, Duke of Saxony, Guru Nanak Dev, Isabella of Portugal, Robert Wingfield, Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter, Nicholas Carew, Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu, Ferdinand Columbus, Johann Crotus, Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, Esteban de Dorantes, Lorenzo Campeggio, Estevanico, Il Pordenone, Alonso de Zuazo, Suhungmung, Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Ottaviano Petrucci, Lord Edmund Howard, Takayutpi, Sir John Shelton, Richard Whiting, Johann Alexander Brassicanus, Maria de Salinas, Hugh Cook Faringdon, Marco Palmezzano, Lady Margaret Butler, Katarzyna Weiglowa, James Beaton, Francesco Chieregati, Alonso Manso, John Stone, Narapati of Prome, Adrian Fortescue, Nuno da Cunha, Bartolomeo degli Organi, Johannes Lupi, Johann Katzianer, Felix Pratensis, John Stokesley, Gabriel von Salamanca-Ortenburg, Albrecht Go tautas, Nicholas Metcalfe, Andreas Althamer, Renee of Bourbon, Cura Ocllo, Francesco Vettori, Bernardo Clesio, Thomas Marshall, John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath, Saint Arthur, Carlos Ometochtzin, Floris van Egmont, Thomas Dingley, Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye, Kaspar Ursinus Velius, William de la Pole, George IX of Kartli, Thomas Brinknell, Stjepan Brodari, Josef t panek Netolicky, Jean de Poitiers, Seigneur de Saint Vallier, Ichij Fusaie, Gabriel Alonso de Herrera, John Righi, Anneke Esaiasdochter, Philip, Prince of Portugal. Excerpt: Isabella d'Este (19 May 1474 - 13 February 1539) was Marchesa of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural and political figure. She was a patron of the arts as well as a leader of fashion, whose innovative style of dressing was copied by women throughout Italy and at the French court. The poet Ariosto lauded her as the "liberal and magnanimous Isabella," while author Matteo Bandel...