Important People of the Renaissance
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paramorefan26 on March 23, 2012
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Medici Family | -Powerful family that ruled Florence-Used their money to support the arts -made Florence into a cultural center that attracted artists |
Baldassare Castiglione | -Wrote "The Book of Courtier"-Gave characteristics of a noble Renaissance person-charm, wit, education, poetry, singing, dancing, fighting, etc. |
William Shakespeare | -Wrote Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, Hamlet, Midsummer Nights Dream-Greastest playwright of all time -Analyzed mankind -Good used of English language |
Geoffrey Chaucer | -wrote "Canterbury Tales"-Wrote in vernacular, native language of the region -his used of english that would the foundation for todays english language -wrote about all levels of english society |
niccolo machiavelli | -wrote "The Prince"-Political guidebook on how to get and keep power -Took emphasis off of morality and focused on reality |
Girolamo Fracastoro | -famous for his germ theory-soem diseases are spread by unseen particles by touch or through the air |
andreas vesalius | -performed dissection of the human body-disproved medieval theories that had been based on animal dissection |
nicholas copernicus | -1st to publicly claim that the sun, not the Earth, is a the center of the universe-pulished a book, but was afraid of getting into trouble with the church, she he said it was just a theory. |
johannes gutenberg | -invented the printing press-replaced hand-copying....the first book was the bible -cheaper and quicker way of spreading information |
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