Renaissance
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- Gutenberg
- Inventer of Movable type. He made the Mazarin Bible
- Petrarch
- 1st humanist writer. Father of Italian writing, wrote poetry.
- Machiavelli
- wrote the Prince.
- Individualism
- belief in the importance of the individual and personal independence
- Castiglione
- Wrote the Courtier.
- Securalism
- The view that religious concerns should be seperate from the government.
- Erasmus
- Humanist. taught religion as a way of life. Wrote the "Praise of Folly"
- Boccaccio
- Wrote Decameron. It's about people trying to escape the Black Death.
- Jan van Eyck
- Flemish painter who founded Flemish school of painting
- Raphael
- ideals of the high renaissance. Italian painter
- Galaleo
- Did the mathmatics. He invented the Penjulem clock.
- "Praise of Folly"
- openly criticized the abuses found in the church
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Italian painter, engineer, scientist. The most versatile genius of the renaissance. Mona Lisa
- Michelangelo
- Italian painter, sculpture, architect, and poet. He created the David.
- Copernicus
- Said that the sun is the center of the universe in the Revolution of Heavenly Spears.
- Northern Renaissance
- Renaissance out of Italy in Northern Europe.
- Humanism
- restores Christianity back to very simplistic way of life. Teach religion as a way of life.
- Sir Thomas Moore
- Humainst. Beheaded by Henry VIII because he refused the Act of Supremecy. He wrote Utopia