RENAISSANCE

I. Early Humanist Writers:

1. Francesco Petrarch- “Father of Humanism” SONG BOOK

2. Pico della Mirandola- Oration on the Dignity of Man
3. Desiderius Erasmus- “Prince of Humanism” IN PRAISE OF FOLLY
4. Sir Thomas More- UTOPIA
5. Baldassare Castiliogne- The Courtier
6. Rudolf Agricola- De Inventione Dialectica

I. Renaissance Literary Achievers

1. Nicollo Machiavelli- THE PRINCE, DISCOURSE ON LIVY “The end justifies the means.” “Might is Right”
2. Francois Rabelais- GARGANTUA, PANTAGRUEL
3. Michel de Montaigne- ESSAIS
4. Miguel de Cervantes- DON QUIXOTE DELA MANCHA
5. William Shakespeare- MCBETH, R & J, HAMLET, TEMPEST, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
6. John Milton- PARADISE LOST, AREOPAGITICA
7. Jean Baptiste Poquelin a.k.a. Moliere- Le Misanthrope
8. Giovanni Boccacio- DECAMERON

II. Renaissance Arts Achievers

1. Lorenzo Ghiberti- Gates of Paradise (famous sculptor)

2. Donatello (Donato Di Nicollo Di Beto Bardi)- Statue of St. George, David (Sculptor)
3. Leonardo da Vinci- The Last Supper, La Giaconda (MONALISA), Self-potrait (S,A,P,Poet, E, SC, M)
4. Michaelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarrotti Simoni- Last Judgement, Pieta ( S, A, P, Poet, E )
5. Titian/ Tiziano Vecellio- The Assumption of the Virgin (Painter)
6. Raphael Sanzio- Sistine Madonna, The School of Athens (P, A)
7. Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini- Four Rivers, The throne of St. Peter, (Sculptor)
8. El Greco (Doménicos Theotokópoulos)- The Assumption of the Virgin (P)
9. Diego Velasquez- Surrender of Breda (P)
10. Franz Hals- Laughing Cavalier (P)
11. Harmenszoon van Rijn Rembrandt- Anatomy Lesson, Night Watch (P)
12. Peter Paul Reubens- Adoration of the Magi, The Horrors of War (P)
13. Albrecht Durer- Praying Hands, Prodigal Son, Self-Portrait (P)
14. Hans Holbien the Younger- Official painter of the Royal Family of Henry VIII, Erasmus (P)
15. Sandro Botticelli- The Birth of Venus (P)
16. Giovanni Palestrina- Music

III. Renaissance Scientific Achievers

1. Nicolaus Copernicus- Heliocentric Theory

2. Andreas Vesalius- On the Fabric of the Human Body
3. Francis Bacon- Baconian Method/Scientific Method- “Knowledge is Power”
4. Galileo Galilei- telescope, Father Of Modern Physics
5. Tycho Brahe- discovered a supernova
6. Johannes Kepler- elliptical orbit
7. William Harvey- Circulation of the Blood
8. Rene Descartes- Discourse on Method, Father of Analytic Geometry
9. Robert Boyle- Founder of Modern Chemistry
10. Anton Van Leeuwenhoek- microscope
11. Isaac Newton- Law of Gravity, PRINCIPIA

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