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RenaissancePeople
great people of the renaissance.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cervantes | Author, Don Quixote, wrote the first modern novel |
| Rabelais | Author, Gargantua and Pantagruel, perfected the use of satire |
| Shakespeare | Poet & writer, Romeo and Juliet & Hamlet, most plays he wrote were tragedies |
| Raphael | Painter, School of Athens, Designed paintings for Pope Julius the II library |
| Leonardo de Vinci | Painter & inventor & scientist & sculptor, The Last Supper & Mona Lisa. Considered to be an ideal renaissance man. " never finished" |
| Michelangelo | Painter & poet & architect & sculptor, David and the sixth chapel ceiling |
| Durer & Holbien | Artist, engravings and wood carving, Portraits of Henry the VIII wives |
| Sir Thomas More | Writer, Utopia |
| Thomas Aquinas | Christian humanist & scholar & writer, Summa Thrologica. |
| Machiavelli | Writer, Wrote the Prince, how to be a successful and maintain power |
| Gutenburg | Inventor, created the moveable type and printed the Gutenburg Bible |
| Erasmus "leading humanist" | writer, The praise of Folly, makes fun of Christians |
| Chaucer | writer, the Canterbury tales |