Key People of the Renaissance

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Key People of the Renaissance
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Dante Alighieri (Florentine writer)

• Lived 1265-1321 A.D.
• From Florence, Italy
• Achievements studied politics as well as
  literature. Wrote The Divine Comedy in the
  Tuscan dialect (a form of Italian).

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Inferno (Hell)
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More Inferno
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Purgatorio (purgatory)
His girl Beatrice
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Souls of the gluttonous
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Paradiso (heaven)
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Paradiso
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Francesco Petrarch

• Lived 1304-1374 A.D.
• Achievements Poet and Writer. Considered the
  father of the Renaissance. Wrote hundreds of
  poems (most to his love Laura). Created the
  Sonnet form of Poetry.
• For a woman he would never knowFor a woman he
  could never haveHe should change the world
  forever

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• English
• Love that lives and reigns in my thought
• and holds the central place in my heart,
• sometimes comes to my brow fully armed,
• takes his stand there, and sets up his banner.
• She who teaches love and suffering,
• and wishes great desire and burning hope
• to be restrained by reason, reverence, shame,
• is angered in herself by our ardour.
• Then Love retreats in fear to the heart,
• relinquishing his aim, trembles, weeps
• hides himself there, and no more appears.
• What can I do, now my lord's afraid,
• but stay with him until the final hour?
• For he ends well, who dies loving well.

• ITALIAN
• Amor, che nel penser mio vive et regnae 'l suo
  seggio maggior nel mio cor tene,talor armato ne
  la fronte vène,ivi si loca, et ivi pon sua
  insegna.Quella ch'amare et sofferir ne
  'nsegnae vòl che 'l gran desio, l'accesa
  spene,ragion, vergogna et reverenza affrene,di
  nostro ardir fra se stessa si sdegna.Onde Amor
  paventoso fugge al core,lasciando ogni sua
  impresa, et piange, et tremaivi s'asconde, et
  non appar piú fore.Che poss'io far, temendo il
  mio signore,se non star seco infin a l'ora
  extrema?Ché bel fin fa chi ben amando more.

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• I'd sing of Love in such a novel fashion
• that from her cruel side I would draw by force
• a thousand sighs a day, kindling again
• in her cold mind a thousand high desires
• I'd see her lovely face transform quite often
• her eyes grow wet and more compassionate,
• like one who feels regret, when it's too late,
• for causing someone's suffering by mistake
• And I'd see scarlet roses in the snows,
• tossed by the breeze, discover ivory
• that turns to marble those who see it near them
• All this I'd do because I do not mind
• my discontentment in this one short life,
• but glory rather in my later fame.

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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

• Lived 1475-1564
• From near Florence
• Personality ambitious, religious and said to
  have a bad temper.
• Achievements Painter and Sculptor. His art shows
  emotions and human beauty. Famous for David
  and the the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

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The Creation of Adam
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Pieta
Pieta
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Leonardo da Vinci (Renaissance man)

• Lived 1452-1519
• From Vinci, Italy
• Personality Brilliant, curious, an independent
  thinker. Studied art, music, math, anatomy,
  architecture, and engineering.
• Achievements Inventions that were far ahead of
  their time. Painted the Mona Lisa and the Last
  Supper.

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The Last Supper
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The Mona Lisa
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Nicolaus Copernicus

• Lived 1473-1543 A.D.
• Achievements Scientist. Proposed the theory
  that Earth and other planets revolve around the
  sun (heliocentric). His theory was attacked by
  the church.

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Ptolemaic Universe
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Heliocentric Universe
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William Shakespeare (poet and Playwright)

• Lived 1564-1616 A.D.
• From Stratford-upon-Avon, England
• Achievements Understood human behavior. Wrote
  38 plays such as Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and
  Romeo and Juliet.

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Popular Shakespearean phrases

• A laughing stock (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
• A sorry sight (Macbeth)
• As dead as a doornail (Henry VI)
• Eaten out of house and home (Henry V, Part 2)
• Fair play (The Tempest)
• I will wear my heart upon my sleeve (Othello)
• In a pickle (The Tempest)
• In stitches (Twelfth Night)
• In the twinkling of an eye (The Merchant Of
  Venice)
• Mum's the word (Henry VI, Part 2)
• Neither here nor there (Othello)
• Send him packing (Henry IV)
• Set your teeth on edge (Henry IV)
• There's method in my madness (Hamlet)
• Too much of a good thing (As You Like It)
• Vanish into thin air (Othello)

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From Romeo and Juliet

• Her eye discourses I will answer it.I am too
  bold, 'tis not to me she speaksTwo of the
  fairest stars in all the heaven,Having some
  business, do entreat her eyesTo twinkle in their
  spheres till they return.What if her eyes were
  there, they in her head?The brightness of her
  cheek would shame those stars,As daylight doth a
  lamp her eyes in heavenWould through the airy
  region stream so brightThat birds would sing and
  think it were not night.See, how she leans her
  cheek upon her hand!O, that I were a glove upon
  that hand,That I might touch that cheek!

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Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish writer)

• Lived 1547-1616
• From near Madrid, Spain
• Achievements Wrote the masterpiece, Don
  Quixotea comedy that pokes fun at heroic
  knights and Spanish society.