Renaissance People
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- Machiavelli
- wrote The Prince
- Cervantes
- wrote Don Quixote de la Mancha
- Gutenberg
- printing press
- Routes of trade
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major increase in trading;
-new trade routes to the east and discovery of the new world
-led to increase in money - Raphael Sanzio
- painted "The School of Athens"
- Nicholas Copernicus
- bold and shocking belief that earth and all planets revolved around the sun
- Galileo Galilei
- improved telescope and supported Copernicus
- Shakespeare
- "A Midsummer Night's Dream"; "Romeo and Juliet"
- Reformation
- 1500s; a change in religious life brought by a split in Christianity; religion lost a lot of its power
- The Medici Family
- controlled much of the banking system in Florence
- Pope Julius II and Rome
- hired most famous artists of the time (including da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael) to work on projects in Rome
- Martin Luther
- leader of the Protestant Reformation; wrote "95 Theses"
- Renaissance
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1400-1600s; french word, means "rebirth";
-modern history;
-rediscovery of the culture from Greece and Rome
-Italian writers, painters and sculptures; modelled works after Greek and Roman styles - John Calvin
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believed in a very strict way of life to worship God
(NOT!!!) - Castiglione
- wrote a book called The Courier that told about life in a duke's court; it explained what qualifications nobles should have; term "Renaissance Man"
- Leonardo da Vinci
- painted "The Last Supper" and the "Mona Lisa"; first machine gun, adjustable monkey wrench, etc.; ideas for tanks, subs, airplanes, and parachutes
- Michelangelo Buonarotti
- painted celing of Sistine Chapel; sculpted the "Pieta"