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Baldassare Castiglione
Raphael, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Baldassare Castiglione

Milanese writer

Born 6 December 1478 · died 8 February 1529, aged 50
Also known as Baldassarre Castiglione, Balthasar de Chastillon, Balthazar de Castillon

Who was alive at the same time as Baldassare Castiglione?

  1. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  2. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  3. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  4. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  5. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  7. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  8. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  9. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  10. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  11. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  12. Baldassare Castiglione, 1478 – 1529
  13. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  14. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  15. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  16. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  17. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  18. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  19. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  20. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  21. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  22. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  23. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  24. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 1525 – 1594

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When Baldassare Castiglione was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 26, Michelangelo was 3, Christopher Columbus was 26 or 27, Niccolò Machiavelli was 9 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 5.

When Baldassare Castiglione died, Michelangelo was 53, Martin Luther was 45, Nicolaus Copernicus was 55, Hernán Cortés was 43 or 44 and Jacques Cartier was 37.

Born during Baldassare Castiglione’s lifetime: Martin Luther, Raphael, Hernán Cortés, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mimar Sinan, John Calvin and François Rabelais.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I was born about 4 years after Baldassare Castiglione died, Johannes Gutenberg died about 9 years before Baldassare Castiglione was born, Akbar was born about 13 years after Baldassare Castiglione died and Michel de Montaigne was born about 4 years after Baldassare Castiglione died.

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The 145 best-known contemporaries

145 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Baldassare Castiglione. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1504.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  8. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  9. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  16. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  17. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  18. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  20. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  21. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  22. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  23. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  24. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  25. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  26. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  27. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  28. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  29. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  30. Babur 1483 – 1530
  31. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  32. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  33. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  34. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  35. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  36. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  37. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  38. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  39. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  40. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  41. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  42. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  43. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  44. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  45. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  46. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  47. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  48. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  49. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  50. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  51. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  52. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  53. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  54. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  55. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  56. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  57. Jami 1414 – 1492
  58. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  59. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  60. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  61. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  62. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  63. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  64. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  65. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  66. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  67. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  68. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  69. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  70. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  71. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  72. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  73. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  74. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  75. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  76. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  77. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  78. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  79. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  80. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  81. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  82. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  83. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  84. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  85. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  86. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  87. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  88. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  89. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  90. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  91. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  92. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  93. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  94. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  95. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  96. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  97. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  98. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  99. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  100. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  101. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  102. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  103. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  104. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  105. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  106. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  107. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  108. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  109. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  110. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  111. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  112. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  113. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  114. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  115. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  116. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  117. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  118. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  119. James V 1512 – 1542
  120. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  121. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  122. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  123. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  124. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  125. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  126. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  127. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  128. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  129. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  130. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  131. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  132. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  133. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  134. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  135. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  136. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  137. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  138. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  139. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  140. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  141. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  142. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  143. James IV 1473 – 1513
  144. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  145. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535