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Gabriela Ampuño
The Renaissance
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite
making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of
such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the
archetypal Renaissance man
Leonardo Da Vinci
Was an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist,
mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and
writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man,
a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention.
Lorenzo de Medici
Medici was the name of a great ruling family of Florence. Lorenzo, the Magnificent,
was the most famous Medici. Lorenzo was the son of Pietro I Medici and grandson of
Cosimo de' Medici. He succeeded as head of the family upon the death of his father
in 1469, and was an able if autocratic ruler, who made Florence the most powerful
state in Italy and led it to its highest flowering. Many Renaissance artists worked at
his court, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 – April 15, 1446) was one of the foremost architects and
engineers of the Italian Renaissance. All of his principal works are in Florence, Italy.
As explained by Antonio Manetti, who knew Brunelleschi and who wrote his
biography, Brunelleschi "was granted such honors as to be buried in the Basilica di
Santa Maria del Fiore, and with a marble bust, which they say was carved from life,
and placed there in perpetual memory with such a splendid epitaph."[2]
Johann Gutenberg
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (c. 1398 – February 3, 1468) was a
German goldsmith and printer who introduced modern book printing. His invention of
mechanical movable type printing started the Printing Revolution and is widely
regarded as the most important event of the modern period.[1] It played a key role in
the development of the Renaissance, Reformation and the Scientific Revolution and
laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of
learning to the masses.
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Erasmus
Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a "pure" Latin style and enjoyed the
sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists." He has been called "the crowning glory of the
Christian humanists."[2] Using humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared
important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament. These raised
questions that would be influential in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic
Counter-Reformation. He also wrote The Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian
Knight, On Civility in Children, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, Julius
Exclusus, and many other works.
Thomas More
Sir Thomas More (February 7, 1478[1] – July 6, 1535), also known as Saint Thomas
More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, and statesman. He is also
recognised as a saint within the Catholic Church. During his life he gained a
reputation as a leading Renaissance humanist, an opponent of the Protestant
Reformation of Martin Luther and for opposing William Tyndale and his translation of
the Bible into the English language. For three years toward the end of his life he was
Lord Chancellor.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616)[a] was an English
poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language
and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.[1] He is often called England's national poet
and the "Bard of Avon".[2][b] His surviving works, including some collaborations,
consist of about 38 plays,[c] 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several
other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and
are performed more often than those of any other playwright.[3