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Francesco
Petrarch
Poet who wrote Sonnets to Laura
– Father of Humanism
Niccolo
Machiavelli
Political thinker who wrote “The
Prince”
Johannes
Gutenberg
Inventor of the printing press
Thomas More
English humanist who wrote
“Utopia” in 1516
Michelangelo
Painter and sculptor, painted the
Sistine Chapel (Last Judgement)
and sculpted statue of David and
Pieta.
William
Shakespeare
Northern Renaissance playwright
Desideius
Erasmus
Northern Humanist who wrote
“Praise & Folly”
Leonardo Da
Vinci
Renaissance Man (painter,
sculptor, scientist) who painted
“The Last Supper” and “Mona
Lisa”
Michelangelo the
Sculptor
David
Leonardo Da Vinci
Mona Lisa
Michelangelo the
Painter
Sistine Chapel
Johannes Gutenberg
Moveable Type
“The Praise of Folly”
Desiderius Erasmus
“The Prince”
Machiavelli
Playwright:
William Shakespeare
Macbeth
Romeo & Juliet
Hamlet
Sir Thomas More
“Utopia”
Francesco Petrarch
Poet famous for his
sonnets to Laura
The Renaissance
The period after the
Middle Ages meaning
“rebirth”
Ottoman Empire
Location
(Foundation) of the
Renaissance
Location of the
Songhai Empire