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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