Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Luigi Alamanni, John Bale, Robert Barnes, John Gresham, Thomas Gargrave, Hendrik Niehoff, William Carey, Petrus Apianus, Edward Bayntun, Antonio de Mendoza, Giampietrino, Leonard Cox, Alfonso de Castro, Jan van Scorel, Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg-Harburg, Hans Weiditz, John of God, William Coffin, Paris Bordone, Gian Matteo Giberti, Erhard Schnepf, Barbara Zapolya, Robert Bowes, Matteo Bassi, Bagrat III of Imereti, Louis X, Duke of Bavaria, Mary Fiennes, Lady Norris, Claude d'Annebault, Isidoro Chiari, Marcin Bielski, William Tresham, Marcos de Niza, Nicolas Cleynaerts, Francesco II Sforza, Thomas Lupset, Francisco Xerez, Trond Torleivsson Benkestok, Pascual de Andagoya, Marcin Zborowski, Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton, Juan de Lanuza y Garabito, Henricus Grammateus, Matthias Greitter, Michele Antonio, Marquess of Saluzzo, John Arundell, Eguinaire Baron, Jean Maynier, Wan Quan, Scipione Sacco, Domenico Caprioli, Hans Lufft, Bernardino Ferrari. Excerpt: John Bale (21 November 1495 - November 1563) was an English churchman, historian and controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory. He wrote the oldest known historical verse drama in English (on the subject of King John), and developed and published a very extensive list of the works of British authors down to his own time, just as the monastic libraries were being dispersed. He was born at Cove, near Dunwich in Suffolk. At the age of twelve he entered the Carmelite monastery at Norwich, removing later to the house of "Holme," (possibly the abbey of the Whitefriars at Hulne near Alnwick). Later he entered Jesus College, Cambridge, and took his degree of B.D. in 1529. He became the last Prior of the Ipswich Carmelite house, elected in 1533. He abandoned his monastic vocation, and got married, saying, "that I might never more serve so execrable a beast, I took to wi...