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What does Renaissance mean?

Leonardo da Vinci
http://www.history.com/topics/leonardo-davinci/videos#leonardos-deluge

Michelangelo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwl640Yc 6JM

Baldesar Castiglione
Textbook page 473 Renaissance man

Dante

Dante
father of the modern Italian Wrote in vernacular national languages, not Latin Writing of the Divine Comedy as a means of addressing personal, social, political, and historical problems Inferno describes Dantes imaginary trip through Hell Purgatory and Heaven

Erasmus

Erasmus
Ridiculed superstition, prejudice, upper class privileges, and Church abuses By making fun of social evils, Erasmus encouraged people to think about reforms

Giovanni Piccolo della Mirandola

Giovanni Piccolo della Mirandola

Scholar of law, philosophy, Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Arabic Expressed unorthodox ideas about the Church Praised the dignity of human beings

Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg
Inventor of the printing press Why was the printing press revolutionary?

Machiavelli

Machiavelli
Textbook page 476 What does Machiavelli say about princes? Should they be loved or feared?

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