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Florence |
the baking center of Europe |
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Dante Alighieri |
a writer; born in Florence |
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Donatello |
talented poet and architect; first sculpture to use new lifelike style |
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Divine Comedy |
a long peom written by Dante Alighieri |
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The Statue of David |
sculpted by Michelangelo |
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Arno River |
river that Florence was located on |
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Brunelleschi |
a Renaissance architect who studied ancient ruins of Rome |
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Medici family |
single family that dominated Florence |
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Leonardo da Vinci |
a creative Renaissance thinker, artist, inventor, and scientist |
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Girolamo Cardano |
an Italian mathematicians who solved colmplex equations in Algebra |
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Lorenzo the Magnificent |
one of the most powerful Medici's; ruled Florence for more than 20 years |
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Niccolo Machiavelli |
a Florentine statesman and historian |
