Important People of the Renaissance and Reformation

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Important People of the Renaissance and
Reformation

• THE KEY FIGURES

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Dante

• Full Name Dante Alighieri
• Job Poet
• Famous Works The Divine Comedy
• Value Written in Italian making it the first
  work in western literature not written in Latin.
  This opens the door for vernacular writing.

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Petrarch

• Full Name Francesco Petrarcha
• Job Poet, Humanist
• Famous Works wrote many biographies of famous
  Romans
• Value Father of Humanism. He convinced
  scholars to search the monasteries for ancient
  Latin texts so the Romans could be studied.

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The Medicis

• Full Name Cosimo Lorenzo deMedici
• Job Politics and Banking
• Famous Works Paid for the Renaissance in
  Florence
• Value They used their wealth to pay for artists
  like Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci to create
  great works of art.

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Lorenzo de Medici
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Leonardo da Vinci

• Full Name Leonardo da Vinci
• Job Artist, Sculptor, Scientist, Mathematician,
  Architect, Writer, and more.
• Famous Works Mona Lisa, Last Supper
• Value Increased the level of artwork produced on
  many levels. He also made great improvements in
  medicine.

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Michelangelo

• Full Name Michelangelo Buonarroti
• Job Sculptor, Painter, Poet, and Architect
• Famous Works Statue of David, Ceiling of the
  Sistine Chapel
• Value Improved the level of sculpting and
  architecture

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Botticelli

• Full Name Sandro Botticelli
• Job Painter
• Famous Works Birth of Venus, Adoration of the
  Magi
• Value Artwork displayed major advancement of
  painting techniques.

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Machiavelli

• Full Name Niccolo Machiavelli
• Job Political Philosopher
• Famous Works The Prince
• Value His views and ideas on politics are still
  well-known and used today

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Gutenberg

• Full Name Johannes Gutenberg
• Job Inventor, Publisher
• Famous Works Inventor of the printing press,
  Gutenberg-Bible
• Value the printing press allowed books to
  printed faster and allowed ideas to spread faster
  than ever before

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Martin Luther

• Full Name Martin Luther
• Job Monk, Priest, Theologian
• Famous Works Ninety-Five Theses
• Value His ideas challenged the Catholic Church
  and led to the Reformation creating Protestant
  Christianity

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John Calvin

• Full Name John Calvin
• Job Pastor, Theologian
• Famous Works Institutes of the Christian
  Religion
• Value His ideas reformed the Church in Geneva
  and created more Protestant churches

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John Wycliffe

• Full Name John Wycliffe
• Job Preacher, Theologian, Translator
• Famous Works Wycliffes Bible
• Value He was the first person to translate the
  Bible into English

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Henry VIII

• Full Name Henry Tudor
• Job King of England
• Famous Works united England and Wales
• Value He breaks away from the Catholic Church
  in England created more Protestant churches

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