Elizabeth Barrett Browning

English poet

Evangelista Torricelli

Italian physicist

Niccolò Machiavelli

Italian diplomat

Joseph Bonaparte

Statesman

Sandro Botticelli

Italian painter

Giotto

Italian painter

Lucrezia Donati

Bronzino

Italian painter

Giovanni Caselli

Visual artist

Vincenzo Viviani

Italian mathematician

Angelo Poliziano

Italian poet

Howard Pyle

American illustrator

Contessina de' Bardi

Claire Clairmont

Writer ‧ Mary Shelley's sister

Felice Beato

Italian-British photographer

Girolamo Savonarola

Italian friar

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Italian philosopher

Lina Cavalieri

Italian operatic soprano

Gladys Swarthout

American soprano

Poggio Bracciolini

Italian author

Carlo Collodi

Italian author

Giorgio Vasari

Italian painter

Caroline Bonaparte

French princess

Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of

Giovanni Sartori

Italian football player

Walter Savage Landor

Writer

Gino Bartali

Cyclist

Filippo Brunelleschi

Italian architect

Vittorio Alfieri

Italian dramatist

Caterina Sforza

Bianca Riario

Clarice Orsini

Lorenzo Bartolini

Italian sculptor

Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

Alessandro Allori

Italian painter

Pontormo

Italian painter

Andrea del Sarto

Italian painter

Plautilla Nelli

Artist

Giovanni Papini

Italian journalist

Mario Luzi

Italian author

Antonio Cesti

Italian composer

Richard Lalor Sheil

Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici

Italian banker

Piccarda Bueri

Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici

Italian banker

Bianca de' Medici

Musician ‧ Piero di Cosimo de' Medici's daughter

Carlo Monni

Italian film actor

Frances Milton Trollope

Novelist