Who Was Alive

Ludovico Ariosto

Italian poet

Born 8 September 1474 · died 6 July 1533, aged 58

Who was alive at the same time as Ludovico Ariosto?

  1. Mehmed II
  2. Christopher Columbus
  3. Leonardo da Vinci
  4. Vasco da Gama
  5. Erasmus
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli
  7. Albrecht Dürer
  8. Nicolaus Copernicus
  9. Ludovico Ariosto
  10. Michelangelo
  11. Thomas More
  12. Ferdinand Magellan
  13. Raphael
  14. Martin Luther
  15. Hernán Cortés
  16. Mimar Sinan
  17. Henry VIII of England
  18. Jacques Cartier
  19. François Rabelais
  20. Suleiman the Magnificent
  21. Charles V
  22. Nostradamus
  23. John Calvin
  24. Michel de Montaigne
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Ludovico Ariosto was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 22, Christopher Columbus was 22 or 23, Niccolò Machiavelli was 5, Nicolaus Copernicus was 1 and Albrecht Dürer was 3.

When Ludovico Ariosto died, Michelangelo was 58, Martin Luther was 49, Nicolaus Copernicus was 60, Hernán Cortés was 47 or 48 and Jacques Cartier was 41.

Born during Ludovico Ariosto’s lifetime: Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Hernán Cortés, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent and Michel de Montaigne.

Not quite contemporaries: Miguel de Cervantes was born 12 years after Ludovico Ariosto died, Elizabeth I of England was born months after Ludovico Ariosto died, Johannes Gutenberg died 5 years before Ludovico Ariosto was born and Akbar was born 9 years after Ludovico Ariosto died.

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All 51 contemporaries we track

  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 1457–1469 – 1524
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  16. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  17. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  18. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  19. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  20. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  21. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  22. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  23. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  24. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  25. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  26. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  27. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  28. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  29. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  30. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  31. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  32. Babur 1483 – 1530
  33. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  34. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  35. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  36. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  37. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  38. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  39. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  40. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  41. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  42. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  43. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  44. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  45. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  46. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  47. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  48. Vlad the Impaler 1428–1431 – 1476–1477
  49. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  50. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  51. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541