AP EURO WHO'S WHO

Important people involved in the Renassaince and Age of Discovery

Francesco Petrarch

Father of Humanism - Collection of Love Sonnets to Laura

Giovanni Boccaccio

Decameron-

Leonardo Bruni

History of the Florentine People- separated history into three ages

Baldassare Castiglione

The Courtier- how people act in polite society

Maciavelli

The Prince- Father of Political Science- How to lead

Lorenzo Valla

Falsified the Donation of Constantine

Erasmus

In Praise of Folly- Prince of Humanism- first Christian Humanist

Thomas More

Utopia

Geoffrey Chaucer

Canterbury Tales

Michel Montaigne

Father of the Essay

Miguel Cervantes

Father of the Modern Novel- Don Quixote

Henry the Navigator

School for seafaring skills

Bartholomew Dias

Sailed around the tip of Africa

Ferdinand Magellan

Proved Asia could be reached by sailing West

Hernando Cortes

Formed alliance against Aztecs- later destroyed them

Masaccio

The Expulsion of Adam and Eve- first to show nude figures

DaVinci

Mona Lisa, The Last Supper

Raphael

The School of Athens

Michelangelo

Sistine Chapel, The Last Judgement, Pieta, David

Botticelli

The Birth of Venus

Van Eyck

The Arnolfini Wedding

Brugel

Painted pesants- Children’s Games, The Wedding Dance

Rembrant

The Night Watch

El Greco

View of Toledo

Christine Pizan and Laura Cereta

Important female writers of the Renaissance

Giotto

Bridge between Medieval and Renaissance art

Vasco Da Gama

established an all water trade route to India