Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine humanist and the first director of the Accademia Platonica, paid Plethon the ultimate honour, calling him ' the second Plato ', while Cardinal Bessarion speculated as to whether Plato's soul occupied his body.

* 1406 – Matteo Palmieri, Florentine humanist and historian ( died 1475 )

He was for some time professor of law in the University of Florence, and after the dismissal in 1456 from the Florentine chancellorship of the renowned humanist Poggio Bracciolini for incompetence and an interregnum of two years, Accolti himself became Chancellor of the Florentine Republic in 1458.

Girolamo Mei ( 27 May 1519 – July 1594 ) was an Italian historian and humanist, famous in music history for providing the intellectual impetus to the Florentine Camerata, which attempted to revive ancient Greek music drama.

Toscanelli along with Nicholas of Cusa ( Cusanus ) appears to have belonged to a network of Florentine and Roman intellectuals who searched for and studied Greek mathematical works, along with Filelfo, George of Trebizond, and the humanist Pope Nicholas V, in company with Toscanelli ’ s friends Alberti and Brunelleschi.

Vitruvius ' work was " rediscovered " in 1414 by the Florentine humanist Poggio Bracciolini, who found it in the Abbey of St Gallen, Switzerland.

The rebuilding was done by Florentine architect Bernardo Gambarelli ( known as Bernardo Rossellino ) who may have worked with the humanist and architect Leon Battista Alberti, though there are no documents to prove it for sure.

Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori ( 31 May 1535 – 22 September 1607 ) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.

He was born in Genoa, one of two illegitimate sons of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Lorenzo Alberti.

Lorenzo de ' Medici ( 1 January 1449 – 9 April 1492 ) was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance.

The major Florentine architectural projects by Michelangelo are the unexecuted façade for the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, and the Medici Chapel ( Capella Medicea ) and Laurentian Library there, and the fortifications of Florence.

At the age of ten, he was apprenticed to the famous sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, designer of the doors of the Florence Baptistery, whose workshop was the premier centre for Florentine art at the time.

* January 12 – Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor ( b. 1459 )

* probable – Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor ( d. 1537 )

He was the second son of Lorenzo de ' Medici, the most famous ruler of the Florentine Republic, and Clarice Orsini.

Giovanni di Lorenzo de ' Medici was born in Italy, the second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, head of the Florentine Republic, and Clarice Orsini.

Ingres and his wife moved to Florence in 1820 at the urging of the Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini, an old friend from his years in Paris, who hoped that Ingres would improve his position materially, but Ingres, as before, had to rely on his drawings of tourists and diplomats for support.

The Florentine painters, who were to join Perugino, who was already there and was perhaps the superintendent of the whole decoration, left Florence on 27 October 1480: their call was part of a reconciliation project between Lorenzo de ' Medici, the de facto ruler of Florence, and Pope Sixtus IV.

In the case of Botticelli's Birth of Venus, the suggested references to Lorenzo, supported by other internal indicators such as the stand of laurel bushes at the right, would have been just the sort of thing erudite Florentine humanists would have appreciated.

As shown by his letter of dedication, Machiavelli's work eventually came to be dedicated to Lorenzo di Piero de ' Medici, grandson of " Lorenzo the Magnificent ", and a member of the ruling Florentine Medici family, whose uncle Giovanni became pope Leo X in 1513.

Bandinelli was a leader in the group of Florentine Mannerists who were inspired by the revived interest in Donatello attendant on the installation of Donatello's bas-relief panels for the pulpit in San Lorenzo, 1515.

The first work depicts a portrait of Lorenzo de ' Medici, and the third, the painter's own likeness, which he also included in one of his pictures in the Santa Maria Novella as well as in the Adoration of the Magi in the Florentine orphanage, the Ospedale degli Innocenti.

In this period he began to collect some ancient Roman busts ( which were donated to Lorenzo de Medici when the Florentine leader visited Mantua in 1483 ), painted some architectonic and decorative fragments, and finished the intense St. Sebastian now in the Louvre ( box at top ).

At the end of his life he opened a new workshop in Venice where he was working on the statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni, leaving the Florentine workshop in charge of Lorenzo di Credi.

They are the work of the greatest Florentine artists of their times, such as Donatello, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Paolo Uccello and Andrea del Castagno.

On the history of Florence and of Tuscany he wrote Tavole cronologiche e sincrone della storia fiorentina ( 1841 ; Supplement, 1875 ); Geschichte Toscanas seit dem Ende des florentinischen Freistaats ( History of Toscany since the end of the Florentine freestate, Gotha, 1876-77 ); and a work on Lorenzo de ' Medici ( Leipzig, 1874, and again 1883 ).

Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco studied under notable Florentine Renaissance humanists Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano and Giorgo Antonio Vespucci ( uncle of the navigator Amerigo Vespucci ; Amerigo was a fellow-student and, from the 1483, became an employee and friend of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco ; in the early 1500s, Amerigo Vespucci would send most of his famous letters on the " New World " to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco ).

* 1480 – Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI ( d. 1519 )

* Arnolfo di Cambio, Florentine architect ( d. 1310 )

** Filippino Lippi, Florentine painter ( d. 1504 )

** Luca della Robbia, Florentine sculptor ( d. 1482 )

* February 16 – Coluccio Salutati, Florentine political leader ( d. 1406 )

* June 18 – Bartolomeo Ammanati, Florentine architect and sculptor ( d. 1592 )

** Francesco Ferruccio, Florentine captain ( d. 1530 )

* May 18 – Piero Soderini, Florentine statesman ( d. 1513 )

** Paolo Uccello, Florentine painter ( d. 1475 )

* probable – Mino da Fiesole, Florentine sculptor ( d. 1484 )

** Andrea del Verrocchio, Florentine sculptor ( approximate date ; d. 1488 )

* probable – Francesco Landini, Florentine organist and composer ( d. 1397 )

** Giovanni Villani, Florentine writer ( d. 1348 )

It was adapted and modified throughout the Middle Ages, including an influential Latin prose version Historia Caroli Magni ( also known as the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle ), which also includes Roland's battle with a Saracen giant named Ferracutus who is only vulnerable at his navel ( the story was later adapted in the anonymous Franco-Venetian epic L ' Entrée d ' Espagne ( c. 1320 ) and in the 14th century Italian epic La Spagna ( attributed to the Florentine Sostegno di Zanobi and likely composed between 1350 – 1360 ).

In 1589, Isabella Andreini performed her comic work Pazzia d ' Isabella ( Isabella's madness ) for the Florentine court during the wedding of Ferdinando I de ' Medici and Christina of Lorraine, and the details of the mostly improvised play have endured until modern times.