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Marco Polo 

• Marco Polo lived from 1254 to 1324
• His journey through Asia lasted 24 years.
• He became the confidant of Kublai Khan.
• He is the one of the most famous people to travel o n the Silk road.
• The sea journey took 2 years and 600 passengers died.
• They arrived in winter of 1295.
• http://www.silk-road.com

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Cosimo di Giovanni degli Medici

• Cosimo lived from 1389 to 1464.
• He was sometimes called Cosimo the Elder.
• When his father,"Giovanni di Biccide Medici," died they were all banished.
• When her came back a year later, he was supported by people and ruled Florence.
• He was a finacier who expanded his families banking business.
• http://www.infoplease.com

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Durante degli Alighieri

• Lived from 1265 to 1321.
• Also known as Dante.
• His greatest work (The Divine Comedy), is thought to be the greatest literary statement in Eurpe in medieval times.
• It is presumed he studied at home.
• He foght in the battle of Campaldino (June 11,1289).
• http://www.readeasily.com

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Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

• Lived from 1464 to 1493.
• Known as the father of modern and political theory.
• In 1498, he became the secratary of Ten, until the fall of the republic in 1512.
• Machiavelli was involved in the downfall of his patron,Gonfalon Sodenni.
• He was arrested on charge of conspiracy in 1513,and tortured.
• He was obliged to retire from public life and started doing literature.
• http://www.historyguide.org

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Michealangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

• Lived from 1475 to 1564.
• He was an italian sculptor,painter,architect,and poet.
• He was one of the founders of high Renaissance.
• His desire to become an artist was opposed by his father.
• http://www.artchive.com

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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

• Lived from 1452 to 1519.
• His most famous masterpieces are, Mona Lisa, Madonna of the Rock, and The Last Supper.
• He had one of the best scientific minds of his time.
• Leonardo's scientific and technical observations are in his handwritten manuscripts.
• Over 4,000 pages survived.

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Francesco Petrarca

• Lived from 1304 to 1374.
• Spent much of his life in Avignon.
• His father died in 1326.
• His latin poetry scholarship made him famous.
• Petrach's best work was inspired by a young love-Laura.
• http://www.poetry-portal.com

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Sandro Botticelli

• Lived from 1444 to 1510.
• His real name is Alessandro Fillipepi.
• When he was younger, his father let him become a goldsmith.
• He was then given the name Botticelli meaning "little barrel."
• Sandro developed tender expressions in his subjects, face, and in their gestures.
• http://www.historylink101.com

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Titian

• Lived from 1488 to 1576.
• He died from the Bubonic Plague.
• He was sometimes called,"Da Codore."
• It used to be said that when Titian was a kid, he painted on the wall of the Casa Sampieri.
• He then had an art teacher.
• http://www.nndb.com

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Filippo Brunelleschi

• Lived from 1377 to 1446.
• He was the son of a lawyer and notary named Brunellesco Di Lippo, and hismother's name was Giuliana Spini.
• He was trained as a sculptor and goldsmith in a Florentine workshop
• He developed a technique making the curves of the cupola without supporting framework.
• Buried in Snta Maria del Flore.
• http://www.middle-ages.org.uk

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Johannes Gutenberg

• Lived from 1400 to 1468.
• When he was younger there was a new way of making books.
• Johann did much of his work in secret because he thought it was much better that his neighbors knew nothing.
• So,he decided to find a workshop where no o ne could find them.
• www.middle-ages.org.uk

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Desiderius Erasmus

• Lived from 1466 to 1536.
• He was the the illegitamate son of a Dutch Priest and a woman named Margaret.
• He was educated at many Monastic schools.
• Erasmus was a Roman Catholic but disagreed to many traditions of the church.
• Erasmus wrote the Praise of Holly and the Handbook of a Christian Knight.
• http://www.middle-ages.org/uk

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Albrecht Durer

• Lived from 1471 to 1528.
• The city of Nuremberg,1 of the strongest artistic and commercial centers in Europe during the 15th & 16th centuries.
• Durer apprenticed with his father.
• By the age of 30 he completed 3 of his most famous seriesof woodcuts on religious subjects.
• The Apocalypse,The Large Woodcut Passion, etc.
• http://www.metmuseum.org

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Miguel de Cervantes

• Lived from 1547 to 1616.
• Cervantes was a Spanish novelist, playwrighter,and poet.
• He was 1 of the most famous figures in Spanish Literature.
• In spite of fame, Cervantes was still poor.
• Miguel lived in an unsettled life of hardship and adventure.
• <http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cervante.htm

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William Shakespeare

• Live from 1564 to 1616.
• He was the oldest son of Mary Arden and her husband John Shakespeare.
• An english poet,dramatist,and actor and considered to be the greatest dramatist of all time.
• His most famous plays are Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet.
• Stratford,where William was born, was famous for its malting.\
• http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder

• His date of birth ranges from 1525-1530 and death 1569.
• The most importantand exciting painter of Norhern Europe inthe mid-16th century.
• His name is origianally spelled,"Brueghel."
• He became an apprentice for Pieter Cock van Aelst.
• Bruegel later married his daughter.
• http://www.famous-painters.org

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Hans Holbein

• Lived from 1497 to 1543.
• Coming from an artistic family, and being exceedingly alert, he absorbed the achievments of Northern and Italian artist.
• He was barelyover 30 when he painted altarpainting of the virgin with the family of the burgomast.
• Holbein learned trde in the North.
• http://www.artchive.com

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Jan van Eyck

• Said to be born around the 1390"s and died 1441.
• Jan was one of the most influential people in his time.
• He had an older brothe named Hubert van Eyck,who was an artist too.
• They often worked together;Sometimes Hubert would start a painting and Jan would finish.
• Jan finished 15 paintings in 61 years.
• http://www.yesnet.yk.ca

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Francois Rabelais

• Was said to be born in 1494 and died in 1553.
• People dont know accurate dates about most things on him.
• It is unknown how he died.
• If he was born in 1483, he must have been 47 when he entered at Montpellier.
• http://www.nndb.com.

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• Desiderius was one of the most important northern scholars.
• Many northern scholars felt that the church was corrupt and no lnger true to the spiritof Jesus's teachings anymore.
• Scholars in northern Europe became more interested in history.
• But,northern scholars focused on Christianity.