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AP Euro Important People I
Scientists, Renaissance writers, Humanists, and more...
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10th Grade
09/01/2008

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Rabelais
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Wrote GARGATUAN AND PANTAGRUN, author and comedian, satire of govt and church
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Machiavelli
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made political observations about the way that rulers had to rule. Wrote THE PRINCE
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More
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Wrote UTOPIA, was executed because he wouldn't follow the Act of Supremacy
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Chaucer
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Wrote CANTEBURY TALES, Father of english Lit.
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Shakespeare
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Famous playwright, greates playwright of all time...BLA BLA BLA you know what he wrote
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Milton
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wrote PARADISE LOST wrote pamphlets
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Giotto
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Italian painter and architect: GIATTO'S TOWER, fresco style painting(on wet plaster) ST THOMAS'S FEEDING THE BIRDS
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Montaigne
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Father of the essay! Tolerant of all men yet encouraged humility. He was a statesman and essayist
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Dante
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Italian poet, wrote the DIVINE COMEDY
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Moliere
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wrote comedies that ridiculed bad doctors and aristocrats. Wrote IMAGINARY INVAID....?
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Mirandola
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Italian Renaisance Philosopher. Wrote ORATION ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN
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Michelangelo
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painted Sistine Chapel and sculpted David TRUE RENAISSANCE MAN !
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Donatello
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ST GEORGE (done in armor) Sculpted THE DAVID, first important standing nude
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Erasmus
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Dutch Renaissance Humanist. Created Latin And Greek versions of the New Testament. Wrote PRAISE OF FOLLY
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Petrarch
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Italian scholar,poet,humanist. "Father of Humanism" Developed the sonnet & first man of letters. Sonnnets about Laura
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Ghiberti
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Artist of the GATES OF PARADISE
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Gutenburg
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Invented moveable type printing in Europe, GUTENBURG BIBLE
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Cervantes
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Wrote DON QUIXOTE
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Boccaccio
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Italian author & poet. Wrote DECAMARON, wrote poems in vernacular, known for his dialogue. Father of Short Stories
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da Vinci
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Invented mirror writing, painted MONA LISA & LAST SUPPER. HE WAS THE IDEAL RENAISSANCE MAN!
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Titan
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leader of venician school painted with vivid colors, portraits and religious scenes
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Raphael
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Italian painter & architect, drew realisticly School of athens?
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Palestrina
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most famous composer, wrote Mass, father of classical music
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El Greco
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painter, sculptor, architect of Spanish REnaissance, surrealistic, "VIEW OF TOLEDO"
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Velasquez
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Spanish painter, lead painter in court of Philip IV, LAS MENINAS
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Hals
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famous portraiture, dutch, painted every day scenes LAUGHING CACELLIER, SURRENDER OF ...
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Rembrandt
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painted masters of the cloth hall, THE ANATOMY LESSON
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Rubens
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celebrated of flemish school, painted spanish nobility, baroque style, religious works
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Durer
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German Artist studied in Italy, religious subjects & classical myths, woodcuts and engravings PRAYING HANDS, THE HARE, FOUR HORSEMAN OF THE EPOCOLIPSE
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Holbein
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influenced by durer, painted almost photographic paintings, painted HENRY VII, painted ERASMUS
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Copernicus
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heliocentric theory
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versalius
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wrote the structure of the human body, FATHER OF ANATOMY
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Francis Bacon
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english politician & writer, encouraged experimentation, scientific method, THE ADVANCEMENT OF METHOD
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Galileo
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discovered law of pendulum, discovered dark spots on sun, laws of mothion, law of falling bodies
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Kepler
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Brilliant mathematician, plantes moved in elliptical motions not circles, KEPLER"S LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION
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Harvey
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wrote ON THE MOVEMENT OF THE HEART AND BLOOD, father of cardiology
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Descartes
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developed analyticalgeometry, liked algebra and geometry, important tool for scientific research DISCOURSE ON METHOD
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Boyle
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THE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST, chemist and physicist, inventor, father of modern chemistry
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Leeuwenhoek
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saw red blood cells for the first time, father of microbiology
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Newton
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Theory of motion, all physical objects affected equally by the same forces, same force ruled everything, disproved aristotle, INVENTED CALCULUS
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