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•  Peter Bales

  Peter Bales (1547 – 1610?), English calligrapher, one of the inventors of shorthand writing, was born in London in 1547, and is described by Anthony Wood as a "most dexterous person in his profession, to the great wonder of scholars and others". We are also informed that "he spent several years in sciences among Oxonians, particularly, as it seems, in Gloucester Hall; but that study, which he used for a diversion only, proved at length an employment of profit".

  

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•  Mateo Alemán

  Mateo "Mat" Alemán y de Enero was a Spanish novelist and writer. He graduated at Seville University in 1564, studied later at Salamanca and Alcalá, and from 1571 to 1588 held a post in the treasury; in 1594 he was arrested on suspicion of malversation, but was speedily released. According to some authors, he was descended from Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism after 1492, and one of his forebears had been burned by the Inquisition for secretly continuing to practise Judaism.

  

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•  Matteo Perez d'Aleccio

  Matteo Perez d'Aleccio (1547–-1616) was an Italian painter of devotional, historical and maritime subjects during the Mannerist period. He was also known as Matteo da Lecce or Leccio by virtue of his hometown of Lecce. He studied under Michelangelo, working on the Sistine Chapel, in the Vatican, painting the Fall of the Angels in the facade facing Michelangelo's Last Judgment. He was a member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.

  

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•  Cristofano Malvezzi

  Cristofano Malvezzi (baptised June 28, 1547 – January 22, 1599) was an Italian organist and composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the most famous composers in the city of Florence during a time of transition to the Baroque style. Malevezzi was born in Lucca. From 1551 he lived in Florence, serving the Medicis from 1562. He held a number of organist posts in the city, and also taught pupils, among them Jacopo Peri, who is often regarded as the inventor of opera.

  

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•  Justus Lipsius

  Justus Lipsius, Joose Lips or Josse Lips (18 October 1547 — 23 March 1606), was a Flemish philologist and humanist. Lipsius wrote a series of works designed to revive ancient Stoicism in a form that would be compatible with Christianity. The most famous of these is De Constantia (On Constancy). His form of Stoicism influenced a number of contemporary thinkers, creating the intellectual movement of Neostoicism. He taught at the universities in Jena, Leiden and Leuven.

  

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•  Richard Stanihurst

  Richard Stanyhurst (1547 – 1618), was an Irish alchemist, translator, poet and historian, born in Dublin. His father, James Stanyhurst, was recorder of the city, and Speaker of the Irish House of Commons in 1557, 1560 and 1568. Richard was sent in 1563 to University College, Oxford, and took his degree five years later. At Oxford he became intimate with Edmund Campion. After leaving the university he studied law at Furnival's Inn and Lincoln's Inn.

  

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•  Johan van Oldenbarnevelt

  Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, knight, heer van Berkel en Rodenrijs (1600), Gunterstein (1611) and Bakkum (1613) (September 14, 1547, Amersfoort – May 13, 1619, The Hague) was a Dutch statesman, who played an important role in the Dutch struggle for independence from Spain. Van Oldenbarnevelt studied law at Leuven, Bourges, Heidelberg and Padua, and traveled in France and Italy before settling in The Hague.

  

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•  John of Austria

  John of Austria (24 February, 1547 - 1 October 1578), in English traditionally known as Don John of Austria, and in Spanish as Don Juan de Austria, was an illegitimate son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. He became a military leader in the service of his half-brother, Philip of Spain and is best known for his naval victory at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.

  

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•  Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin

  Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (also spelled Nikodemus) (September 22, 1547 - November 29, 1590), German philologist, poet, playwright, mathematician, and astronomer, was born at Erzingen, today part of Balingen in Württemberg, where his father was parish minister.

  

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•  Claude of Valois

  Claude of Valois was born at Fontainebleau on 12 November 1547 and died in Nancy on 21 February 1575. She was the second daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici.

  

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•  Prime Minister of Tunisia

  The Prime Minister of Tunisia is the head of government of Tunisia. The Prime Minister is appointed by the President of Tunisia. The incumbent Prime Minister is Mohammed Ghannouchi, since 17 November 1999. Since independence, the Prime Minister, like Presidents Habib Bourguiba and Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, has been a member of the Socialist Destourian Party.

  

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•  Sir Henry Monson, 3rd Baronet

  Sir Henry Monson, 3rd Baronet (17 September 1653 – 6 April 1718) was an English politician. He was a member of parliament for Lincoln from 1675 until 1689.

  

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•  Triumph or Agony

  Triumph or Agony is a Rhapsody of Fire album released in Europe on 25 September 2006. It is the first album that the band released after their name change. Triumph or Agony features a live 70 piece orchestra and choir and was again self-produced by guitarist/songwriter Luca Turilli and keyboardist/songwriter Alex Staropoli with assistance from co-producer Sascha Paeth.

  

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•  Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame

  

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•  La Cena Secreta

  

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