giulio pomponio leto

Julius Pomponius Laetus (1428 – 9 June 1498), also known as Giulio Pomponio Leto, was an Italian humanist.

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Plato

Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (c. 427 – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms. He raised prob...
Odysseus

A legendary Greek king of Ithaca and a hero of Homers epic poem the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homers Iliad.Husband of Penelope, father of Telemachus, and son of Laërtes and Anticlea, Odysseus is renowned for his brilliance, gu...
Cupid

In classical mythology, Cupid (Latin Cupido, meaning "desire") is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection. He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus, and is known in Latin also as Amor ("Love"). His Greek counterpart is E...
Psyche (mythology)

Psyche ( Greek: Ψυχή, "Soul" or "Breath of Life") is a mortal woman in Greek mythology. She was the wife of Eros and the mother of Hedone. She is always pictured with butterfly wings. She figures prominently in the story of Cupid and Psyche, which concern...
Venus (goddess)

Venus is the Roman goddess whose functions encompassed love, beauty, sex, fertility and prosperity. In Roman mythology, she was the mother of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy. Julius Caesar claimed ...
Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (c.1265 - 1321), commonly known as Dante, was an Italian poet of the Middle Ages. He was born in Florence; he died and is buried in Ravenna. The name Dante is, according to the words of Jacopo Alighieri, a hypocorism for Durante. In contem...
Zeus (greek Mythology)

Zeus is the "Father of Gods and men" who rules the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father rules the family according to the ancient Greek religion. He is the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology. Zeus is etymologically cognate with and, under Helleni...
Zoroaster

Zoroaster,[a] also known as Zarathustra,[b] is regarded as the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. He is said to have been an Iranian prophet who founded a religious movement that challenged the existing traditions of ancient Iranian religion, and inaugu...
Jupiter (god)

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Medusa

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Deucalion

In Greek mythology, Deucalion (Ancient Greek: Δευκαλίων) was a son of Prometheus. The anger of Zeus was ignited by the hubris of the Pelasgians, so he decided to put an end to the Bronze Age. Lycaon, the king of Arcadia, had sacrificed a boy to Zeus, who ...
Pope Alexander Vi

Pope Alexander VI 1431 – 1503) , born Roderic Llançol, later Roderic de Borja i Borja was Pope from 1492 to 1503. He is one of the most controversial of the Renaissance popes, and his surname (Italianized as Borgia) became a byword for the debased standar...
Lorenzo De Medici (the Magnificent)

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. Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (Lorenzo il Magnifico) by contemporary Florentines, he was a di...
Diana (goddess)

In Roman mythology, Diana (lt. "heavenly" or "divine") was the goddess of the hunt, the moon and birthing, being associated with wild animals and woodland, and having the power to talk to and control animals. She was equated with the Greek goddess Artemis...
Philomela

Philomela or Philomel (Ancient Greek: Φιλομήλα) is a minor figure in Greek mythology and is frequently invoked as a direct and figurative symbol in literary, artistic, and musical works in the Western canon.She is identified as being the "princess of Athe...
Bacchus (god)

The Roman god of wine and intoxication, equated with the Greek Dionysus....
Ceres

In ancient Roman religion, Ceres (Latin: Cerēs) was a goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships. Ceres is the only one of Romes many agricultural deities to be listed among the Di Consentes, Romes equivalent to ...
Europa

In Greek mythology Europa (Greek: Ευρώπη Eurṓpē) was the daughter of Agenor, and was beloved by Zeus. Zeus took the form of a white bull and encountered Europa at the seashore. He coaxed her to climb onto his back and then swam off with her across the sea...
Pyrrha

In Greek mythology, Pyrrha (Greek: Πύρρα) was the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora and wife of Deucalion.When Zeus decided to end the Bronze Age with the great deluge, Deucalion and his wife, Pyrrha, were the only survivors. Even though he was imprisone...
Semele

Semele (Greek: Σεμέλη, Semelē), in Greek mythology, daughter of the Boeotian hero Cadmus and Harmonia, was the mortal mother of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many origin myths....
Tereus

In Greek mythology, Tereus (Ancient Greek: Τηρεύς) was a Thracian king, the son of Ares and husband of Procne. Procne and Tereus had a son, Itys.Tereus desired his wifes sister, Philomela. He forced himself upon her, then cut her tongue out and held...
Hermes

Hermes (Greek : Ἑρμῆς) was an Olympian god in Greek religion and mythology, son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia. He was second youngest of the Olympian gods.Hermes was a god of transitions and boundaries. He was quick and cunning, and moved freely between the...
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463 - 1494) was an Italian Renaissance nobleman and philosopher. He is famed for the events of 1486, when, at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy, and magic against al...
Lucrezia Donati

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Pope Clement Vii

Pope Clement VII (26 May 1478 – 25 September 1534), born Giulio di Giuliano de Medici, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 November 1523 to his death on 25 September 1534more...
Leda (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Leda (Ancient Greek: Λήδα) was the daughter of Thestius and the wife of Tyndareus. She has been known as the Queen of Sparta. Leda was seduced by Zeus when he came to her in the form of a swan. Leda gave birth to an egg. From it hatche...
Desiderius Erasmus

A Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian.Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a pure Latin style. Amongst humanists, he enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists"; he has been called "the crowning ...
Ovid (roman)

Ovid (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18) was a Roman poet, living during the reign of Augustus, and a contemporary of Virgil and Horace.He is best known for the Metamorphoses, a 15-book continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic, and for colle...
Jesus

Jesus[e] (c. 4 BC – c. AD 30 / 33) was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. He is the central figure of Christianity. Jesus Christ is the designation of Jesus of Nazareth (d. c. 30 CE), who was an itinerant Jewish prophet from the Galilee...
Mars (god)

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Mars was the god of war and also an agricultural guardian, a combination characteristic of early Rome.[2] He was second in importance only to Jupiter and he was the most prominent of the military gods in the religion of...
Girolamo Savonarola

Girolamo Savonarola (21 September 1452 – 23 May 1498) was an Italian Dominican friar and preacher active in Renaissance Florence. He was known for his prophecies of civic glory, the destruction of secular art and culture, and his calls for Christian renew...
Innocent Viii

Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492), born Giovanni Battista Cybo (or Cibo), was Pope from 29 August 1484 to his death in 1492. Born into a prominent Genoese family, he entered the church and was made bishop in 1467, before being elevated to the rank of cardin...
Pythagoras

An Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and putative founder of the Pythagoreanism movement. He is often revered as a great mathematician and scientist and is best known for the Pythagorean theorem which bears his name.Legend and obfuscation cloud his...
Leon Battista Alberti

An Italian humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomised the Renaissance Man. Although he is often characterized exclusively as an architect, as James Beck has observed, "to single out one of Leon...
Eleanor Of Aragon

Eleanor of Aragon (1333 – 26 December 1417) was Queen consort of Cyprus by marriage to Peter I of Cyprus. She was regent of Cyprus during the absence of her spouse in 1366, and regent during the minority of her son Peter II of Cyprus from 1369....
Adonis (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Adonis (Ancient Greek: Ἄδωνις, romanized: Adōnis; Phoenician: ...
Priapus

In Greek mythology, Priapus was a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia. Priapus is marked by his oversized, permanent erection, which gave rise to the medical term priapism. He became a popular figur...
Francesco Colonna

Francesco Colonna (1433/1434 – 1527) was an Italian Dominican priest and monk who was credited with the authorship of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by an acrostic formed by initial letters of the text....
Vincent Taft

Professor in Rule of Four...
Richard Curry

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Thomas Corelli Sullivan

Protagonist and narrating character in The Rule of Four...
Bill Stein

Rule of Four...
Poliphilo

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili presents a mysterious arcane allegory in which the main protagonist, Poliphilo pursues his love, Polia, through a dreamlike landscape. In the last, he is reconciled with her by the "Fountain of Venus".more...
Polia

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili presents a mysterious arcane allegory in which the main protagonist, Poliphilo pursues his love, Polia, through a dreamlike landscape. In the last, he is reconciled with her by the "Fountain of Venus".more...
Patrick Sullivan (rule Of Four)

Father of Thomas c. Sullivan...
Paul Harris

One of the four roommates in The Rule of Four...
Gil (preston Gilmore Rankin)

One of the four roommates in The Rule of Four...
Charlie Freeman

One of the four roommates in Rule of Four....
Katie Marchand

One of the girlfriends of Tom in The Rule of Four...
Fortuna (goddess)

Fortuna (equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) was the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion....
Eleutherylida

Queen in Hypnerotoachia Poliphili. Her name means: Free Will...
Logistica (reason)

Guide of Poliphilo in Hypnerotomachia Poliphili...
Thelemia (desire)

Guide of Poliphilo in Hypnerotomachia Poliphili...
Pomona (goddess)

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Aldus Manutius

Aldus Pius Manutius (Italian: Aldo Pio Manuzio; 1449/1452 – 6 February 1515)[1][2] was an Italian humanist, scholar, educator, and the founder of the Aldine Press. Manutius devoted the later part of his life to publishing and disseminating rare texts. His...
Maurizio Calvesi

Italian art-historian...
Pope Paul Ii

Pope Paul II (Latin: Paulus II; 23 February 1417 – 26 July 1471), born Pietro Barbo, was Pope from 30 August 1464 to his death in 1471....
Giulio Pomponio Leto

Julius Pomponius Laetus (1428 – 9 June 1498), also known as Giulio Pomponio Leto, was an Italian humanist....
Christian Rosenkreutz

Christian Rosenkreuz (also spelled Rosenkreutz and Christian Rose Cross) is the legendary, possibly allegorical, founder of the Rosicrucian Order (Order of the Rose Cross). He is presented in three manifestos that were published early in the 17th century....
Piero Di Lorenzo De Medici

Piero di Lorenzo de Medici (15 February 1472 – 28 December 1503), called Piero the Unfortunate, was the gran maestro of Florence from 1492 until his exile in 1494more...