Historical figures in Siena
The atlas holds 6 people and 7 moments here, from 1226 to 1985. The most recorded lives are Niccolò Machiavelli, Dante Alighieri and Galileo Galilei. Among them Writers, Philosophers and Political Leaders, across the Age of Exploration and the Renaissance.
Notable people
Dante Alighieri
in 1302
1 moment here
Florentine poet, prose writer, philosopher, and statesman whose Divine Comedy became a foundational work of Italian and European literature.…
Francis of Assisi
in 1226
1 moment here
Italian Catholic friar, deacon, preacher, and founder of the Order of Friars Minor. Born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone at Assisi, he renounced his…
Galileo Galilei
in 1633
1 moment here
Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, mathematician, and natural philosopher. Born in Pisa, Galileo was educated in Tuscany, taught mathematics at…
Italo Calvino
in 1985
1 moment here
Italian novelist, short-story writer, editor, journalist, and member of Oulipo. Born in Cuba, raised chiefly in Sanremo, and active across Italy,…
Niccolò Machiavelli
from 1503 to 1504
2 moments here
Florentine diplomat, civil servant, political theorist, playwright, and historian of the Italian Renaissance.…
Raphael
in 1502
1 moment here
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, was an Italian High Renaissance painter and architect.…
Moments
- 1226 Treatment at Siena Francis of Assisi
- 1302 Received news of exile in Siena Dante Alighieri
- 1502 Piccolomini Library work in Siena Raphael
- 1503 Mission to Pandolfo Petrucci Niccolò Machiavelli
- 1504 Second mission to Siena Niccolò Machiavelli
- 1633 Confined with Archbishop Piccolomini Galileo Galilei
- 1985 Death at Santa Maria della Scala Italo Calvino