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The Medici
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The Medici were possibly the richest family in Italy. In the 13th Century the family began to gain wealth. At the end of the thirteenth century, the family's wealth increased when one of the members of the family served as gonfalero (bearer of a high ceremonial office).
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Michelangelo
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Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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was an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, botanist and writer.
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Botticelli
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Italian painter.
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brunelleschi
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Italian architect.
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Galileo
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Italian physicist and astronomer.
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Vesalius
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Flemish anatomist.
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William Harvey
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was an English physician who was the first to describe correctly and in exact detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart.
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Copernicus
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astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.
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Machiavelli
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was an Italian philosopher/writer, and is considered one of the main founders of modern political science.
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Gutenberg
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inventor of the European technology of printing with movable type
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Savonarola
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was an Italian Dominican priest and leader of Florence from 1494 until his execution in 1498. He was known for his book burning
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Martin Luther
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As a priest and theology professor, he confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his The Ninety-Five Theses in 1517.
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Pope
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the man at the top of the hierarchy
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Vasco Da Gama
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one of the most successful in the European Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India.
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Christopher Columbus
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was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere.
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Prince Henry
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was an infante (prince) of the Kingdom of Portugal and an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire, being responsible for the beginning of the European worldwide explorations.
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Raphael
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was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings.
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