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Important people involved in the Renassaince and Age of Discovery

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Francesco Petrarch

Father of Humanism - Collection of Love Sonnets to Laura

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Giovanni Boccaccio

Decameron-

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Leonardo Bruni

History of the Florentine People- separated history into three ages

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Baldassare Castiglione

The Courtier- how people act in polite society

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Maciavelli

The Prince- Father of Political Science- How to lead

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Lorenzo Valla

Falsified the Donation of Constantine

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Erasmus

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

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Thomas More

Utopia

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Canterbury Tales

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Michel Montaigne

Father of the Essay

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Miguel Cervantes

Father of the Modern Novel- Don Quixote

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Henry the Navigator

School for seafaring skills

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Bartholomew Dias

Sailed around the tip of Africa

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Ferdinand Magellan

Proved Asia could be reached by sailing West

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Hernando Cortes

Formed alliance against Aztecs- later destroyed them

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Masaccio

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

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DaVinci

Mona Lisa, The Last Supper

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Raphael

The School of Athens

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Michelangelo

Sistine Chapel, The Last Judgement, Pieta, David

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Botticelli

The Birth of Venus

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Van Eyck

The Arnolfini Wedding

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Brugel

Painted pesants- Children’s Games, The Wedding Dance

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Rembrant

The Night Watch

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El Greco

View of Toledo

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Christine Pizan and Laura Cereta

Important female writers of the Renaissance

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Giotto

Bridge between Medieval and Renaissance art

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Vasco Da Gama

established an all water trade route to India