| 1307 | Dante completes the Divine Comedy |
| 1321 | Dante dies |
| 1324 | Marsilius of Padua publishes Defensor Pacis |
| 1337 | Giotto dies |
| 1340 | Geoffrey Chaucer is born |
| 1341 | Petrarch crowned poet laureate in Rome |
| 1348-51 | Boccaccio writes the Decameron |
| 1360 | Langland published Piers Plowman |
| 1377 | Brunelleschi is born |
| 1378 | Ghiberti is born |
| 1386 | Donatello is born |
| 1390 | Jan van Eyck is born |
| 1400 | Chaucer completes Canterbury Tales |
| 1401 | Masaccio is born |
| 1402 | Leon Battista Alberti is born |
| 1429 | Masaccio dies |
| 1436 | Verrochio is born |
| 1444 | Boticelli is born |
| 1446 | Brunelleschi dies |
| 1452 | Ghiberti completes the Gates of Paradise |
| 1452 | Leonardo da Vinci is born |
| 1455 | Johann Gutenberg prints 42-line Bible at Mainz |
| 1466 | Donatello dies |
| 1469 | Marsilio Ficino publishes Theologia Platonica |
| 1471 | Albrecht Dürer is born |
| 1475 | Michelangelo is born |
| 1478 | Birth of Venus, Boticelli |
| 1498 | Pieta, Michelangelo |
| 1498 | Self Portrait, Albrecht Dürer |