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Medici
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Was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance
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Lorenzo Valla
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Was an Italian humanist, rhetorician, and educator.
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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Was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance.
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Donatello
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Was an early Renaissance Italian painter and sculptor from Florence.
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Masaccio
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Was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance.
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Fra Angelico
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Was an Early Italian Renaissance painter described by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent"
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.
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Charles the fourth
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Second king of Bohemia from the House of Luxembourg, and the first king of Bohemia to become the Holy roman emporer.
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Civic humanism
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Wider in scope and stresses the central role of civic virtue in the preservation of the classically Roman/Florentine ideal of political liberty.
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Machiavelli
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Was an Italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance
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Michelangelo
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Was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
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Pieta
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Sculpture of Renaissance by Michelangelo in Vatican City.
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Bramante
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Italian architect, who introduced Renaissance architecture to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome.
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Palladio
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Italian architect active in the Republic of Venice. Influenced by Roman and Greek architecture.
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Erasmus
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Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian
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Vesalius
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Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy.
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Hieronymus Bosch
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Dutch painter. His work is known for its use of fantastic imagery to illustrate moral and religious concepts and narratives.
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Martin Luther
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German monk, priest, professor of theology and seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation.
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Anglicanism
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Tradition within Christianity comprising the Church of England, worship practices and church structures.
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Counsel of Trent
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It is considered to be one of the Church's most important councils
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Cervantes
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Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright.
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Titian
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Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school.
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Tintoretto
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Italian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school.
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John Calvin
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Pastor during the Protestant Reformation
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Rabelias
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Major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar.
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Raphael
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Was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance
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Sistine Chapel
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Best-known chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope in the Vatican City.
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Alberti
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Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer and general Renaissance humanist polymath.
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Mannerism
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Period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520.
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Ghiberti
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Italian artist of the early Renaissance best known as the creator of the bronze doors of the Baptistry of Florence Cathedral.
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