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| 1462 |
| | | In keeping with his personal interest in Plato, Cosimo de' Medici founds a Platonic Academy in Florence | |
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| 1464 |
| | | After his death in 1464, Cosimo de' Medici acquires the posthumous title pater patriae – father of the fatherland | |
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| c. 1465 |
| | | The Sicilian artist Antonello da Messina adopts the Flemish technique of painting in oils | |
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| 1470 |
| | | The first Italian printing press is set up in Venice, which soon rivals Germany for the quality of its printing | |
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| c. 1470 |
| | | Sandro Botticelli is established as one of the leading painters of Florence, working in particular for the Medici | |
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| 1471 |
| | | The new pope, Sixtus IV, secures his name in history, establishing the Sistine chapel and the Sistine choir | |
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| 1472 |
| | | Leonardo da Vinci joins the painters' guild in Florence, probably after training with Verrocchio | |
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| c. 1475 |
| | | Giovanni Bellini becomes the key figure in the development of the Renaissance style in Venice | |
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| 1477 |
| | | Ptolemy's concept of the world, with the Atlantic stretching to China and India, is printed in Bologna – fifteen years before Columbus sails west | |
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| 1478 |
| | | A plot by the Pazzi family, with papal connivance, results in the murder of Guiliano de' Medici during high mass in Florence's cathedral | |
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