The Prophet Joel as imagined by Michelangelo ( Fresco, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1508 – 1512 )

* 1508 – Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist ( d. 1567 )

* 1508 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer ( d. 1555 )

* 1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.

* 1508 – René II, Duke of Lorraine ( b. 1451 )

Early sources: river Ilfing ( 890 ), Castrum de Elbingo quod a nomine fluminis Elbingum appellavit ( 1237 — Peter of Dusburg, Chronicon terrae Prussiae ), in Elbingo ( 1239 ), in Elbing ( 1242 ), in Elbinge ... fluvium Elbinc ( 1246, city charter ), de Elbingo ( 1250 ), in Elbyngo ( 1258 ), vitra Elbingum ( 1263 ), Elvingo ( 1293 ), in Elbingo ( 1300 ), in Elvingo ( 1389 ), czum Elbinge ( 1392 ), czu Elbing ( 1403 ), Elwing ( 1410 ), czum Elwinge ( 1412 ), Elbing ( 1414 – 1438 ), Elbyang ( before 1454 ), Elbing ( 1508 ), ku Elbiągowi ( 1634 ), w Elblągu ( 1661 ), w Elblągu ( 1661 ).

* 1508 – Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar ( b. 1459 )

George's second wife was Hedwig of Münsterberg-Oels ( 1508 – 1531 ), daughter of Charles I of Münsterberg-Oels ; their marriage produced two daughters:

# Margarete ( b. Dresden, 7 September 1508 – d. Dresden, 19 December 1510 ).

Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun (; full title: Al-Sultan al -' Azam wal Khaqan al-Mukarram, Jam-i-Sultanat-i-haqiqi wa Majazi, Sayyid al-Salatin, Abu ' l Muzaffar Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun Padshah Ghazi, Zillu ' llah ; OS 7 March 1508 – OS 17 January 1556 ) was the second Mughal Emperor who ruled present day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northern India from 1530 – 1540 and again from 1555 – 1556.

* Livia Gonzaga ( 1501 – January 1508 ).

* Paola Gonzaga ( August 1508 – 1569 ), a nun.

* 1452 – Ludovico Sforza, Italian son of Francesco I Sforza ( d. 1508 )

After Schlick, a string of composers developed German lute music: Hans Judenkünig ( c. 1445 – 50 – 1526 ), the Neusidler family ( particularly Hans Neusidler ( c. 1508 / 9 – 1563 )) and others.

* 1451 – René II, Duke of Lorraine ( d. 1508 )

* 1508 – Ludovico Sforza, Italian ruler, Duke of Milan ( b. 1452 )

Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel ; the work took approximately four years to complete ( 1508 – 1512 )

During the same period, Michelangelo took the commission to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which took approximately four years to complete ( 1508 – 1512 ).

* Ritracto delle cose della Magna ( 1508 – 1512 )-Portrait of the affairs of Germany.

* Jacopo Bonfadio ( 1508 – 1550 ) was beheaded for sodomy and then his corpse was burned at the stake for heresy.

*** son Ludovico il Moro ( the Moor ) ( 1451 – 1508 )

The conflict is also referred to as the War of the League of Cambrai and lasted from 1508 to 1516.

They were first invented by Hans Burgkmair in Germany in 1508, and first made in Italy by Ugo da Carpi before 1516.

In 1508 – 1516, the Italian architect Aleviz Fryazin ( Novy ) arranged for the construction of a moat in front of the eastern wall, which would connect the Moskva and Neglinnaya and be filled in with water from Neglinnaya.

The principal participants of the war, which was fought from 1508 to 1516, were France, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice ; they were joined, at various times, by nearly every significant power in Western Europe, including Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, England, Scotland, the Duchy of Milan, Florence, the Duchy of Ferrara, and Swiss mercenaries.

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In 1508 – 1516, he also dug a moat ( later dubbed the Alevizov moat in his honor ) along the Kremlin wall on the side of the Red Square, covered with limestone and bricks.

Aloisio da Milano also constructed a dam on the Neglinnaya River in 1508 and a bridge over it in 1516.

Al-Mutawakkil III () ( died 1543 ) was caliph from 1508 to 1516, and again in 1517.

* 3 chansons in ms. 204 ; 1508 ; 1516, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany

* August 19 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect ( b. 1508 )

* October 1 – Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist ( b. 1508 )

The enormous red-brick kremlin, one of the strongest and earliest preserved citadels in Russia, was built in 1508 – 1511 under the supervision of Peter the Italian.

Pietro Carnesecchi ( December 24, 1508 – October 1, 1567 ) was an Italian humanist.

Chiswick Villa is inspired in part by several buildings of the 16th-century Italian architects Andrea Palladio ( 1508 – 1580 ) and his assistant Vincenzo Scamozzi ( 1552 – 1616 ).

* Andrea Palladio ( 1508 – 1580 ), Italian architect

* March 12-Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian philosopher ( born 1508 )

* date unknown-Gabriele Giolito de ' Ferrari, Italian printer ( born c. 1508 )

It is also the meter of several medieval Yiddish epic poems, such as the Bovo-Bukh ( 1507 – 1508 ), which were adaptations of Italian epics.

In the later 16th century in the northeastern Italian Peninsula the Palladian Villas of the Veneto, designed by Andrea Palladio ( 1508 – 1580 ), were built in Vicenza in the Republic of Venice ( Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia ).

The British justified the seizure by claiming that John Cabot ( c. 1450 – c. 1508 ), an Italian under the sponsorship of the English King Henry VII, had been the first to discover the place, though it likely was to assert control over the profitable North Atlantic trade.

In 1508 Mabuse accompanied Philip of Burgundy on his Italian mission to the pope, and by this accident an important revolution was effected in the art of the Netherlands.

Vincenzo Ruffo ( c. 1508 – February 9, 1587 ) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance.

Front page of I quattro libri dell ' architetturaI quattro libri dell ' architettura ( The Four Books of Architecture ) is an Italian treatise on architecture by the architect Andrea Palladio ( 1508 – 1580 ).

It was constructed between 1505 and 1508 under the supervision of an Italian architect Aleviz Fryazin Noviy on the spot of an older cathedral, built in 1333.

The Tempest ( Italian La Tempesta ) is a famous Renaissance painting by Italian master Giorgione dated between 1506 and 1508.

Alessandro Piccolomini ( June 13, 1508 – March 12, 1579 ) was an Italian humanist and philosopher from Siena, who promoted the popularization in the vernacular of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises.

Livio Agresti ( 1508 – 1580 ), also called Ritius or Ricciutello, was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance or Mannerist period, active both in his native city of Forlì and in Rome, where he died.