The First Italian War, sometimes referred to as the Italian War of 1494 [citation needed] or Charles VIII's Italian War, was the opening phase of the Italian Wars.The war pitted Charles VIII of France, who had initial Milanese aid, against the Holy Roman Empire, Spain and an alliance of Italian powers led by Pope Alexander VI, known as the League of Venice.

Giovanni Battista di Jacopo (8 March 1495 in Gregorian style, or 1494 according to the calculation of times in Florence where the year began on 25 March – 14 November 1540), known as Rosso Fiorentino (meaning "Red Florentine" in Italian), or Il Rosso, was an Italian Mannerist painter who worked in oil and fresco and belonged to the Florentine school

Las guerras italianas, también conocidas como las Grandes Guerras Italianas y las Guerras de Italia, fueron una serie de conflictos sucedidos entre 1494 y 1559 que implicaron, en distintas ocasiones, a los principales Estados de la Europa Occidental: Francia, Corona de Castilla, Corona de Aragón, Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico, Inglaterra, la República de Venecia, los Estados …

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (født 24. februar 1463 i Mirandola, død 17. november 1494 i Firenze) var en italiensk humanist og filosof, elev af Ficino.. Pico spillede en stor rolle i renæssancetiden.Han studerede i Bologna, Padova og Paris, drog derefter til Firenze og videre til Rom, hvor han 1486 udgav 900 teser fra alle videnskaber med tilbud om offentligt at forsvare …