World Civ people (based on most well-known name)
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Study_Expert_3000 on April 20, 2010
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Italian | English |
|---|---|
 Lorenzo de Medici | Made Florence the most glorious city in Europe |
| Petrarch | Sonnets to Laura |
| Machiavelli | The Prince |
| Machiavelli | Said "The end justifies the means" |
| Castiglione | The Book of the Courtier |
| Giotto | painted a fly so life-like people tried to brush it away |
| Masaccio | used light and shadows to give effect of depth to objects |
| Leonardo da Vinci | The Last Supper |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Mona Lisa |
| Michelangelo | David |
| Michelangelo | Pieta |
| Michelangelo | Moses |
| Raphael | The School of Athens |
| Raphael | Hired to beautify the Vatican |
| Raphael | Madonnas |
| Titian | The Assumption of the Virgin |
| Titian | First painter to become rich through his work |
| Sandro Botticelli | Birth of Venus |
| Sandro Botticelli | Painted wall frescoes in the Sistine Chapel |
| Johann Gutenberg | Used a movable type to print books |
| Erasmus | The greatest humanist of Northern Europe |
| Erasmus | In Praise of Folly |
| Erasmus | Produced a new Greek edition of the new Testament |
| Erasmus | Encouraged the translation of the Bible into the vernacular languages (everyday language of the ordinary people) |
| Thomas More | Utopia |
| Francois Rabelais | Gargantua and Pantagruel |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote |
| William Shakespeare | Introduced 1700 new words to the English Language |
| William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night |
| William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet |
| William Shakespeare | Richard III |
| Jan van Eyck | Painted portraits of townspeople |
| Jan van Eyck | Created oil painting |
| Jan van Eyck | Painted with his brother Hubert |
| Pieter Brueghel | Painted scenes with vibrant colors of peasant life |
| Albrecht Durer | Famous for his engravings |
| Albrecht Durer | The German Leonardo |
| Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | War, famine, pestilence, death |
| Hans Holbein | Painted portraits of famous people |
| Hans Holbein | Painted Erasmus, Thomas More, and King Henry VIII of England |
| Sofonisba Anguissola | Italian noblewoman |
| Sofonisba Anguissola | Court painter to King Phillip of Spain |
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