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Italian Renaissance painter, engineer, musician, and scientist, this person filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter this person is best known for The Last Supper (c. 1495) and Mona Lisa (c. 1503).
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance, this person was a diplomat and politician, and the peace he maintained between the various Italian states collapsed with his death.
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Lorenzo de Medici
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An Italian Renaissance philosopher, humanist, and writer, this person founded modern political science, and wrote some of the most well-known comedies, carnival songs, and poetry in the Italian language.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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One of the most popular Italian Renaissance poets, this person wrote The Divine Comedy, which is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. In Italy he is referenced to as "The Supreme Poet."
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Dante Alighieri
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An English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat, this person wrote many works and is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Sometimes called "The Father of English Literature."
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Widowed at the age of 25, this person supported their three children by copying manuscripts and writing books, including compiling a manual of instructions for knights.
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Christine de Pizan
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AGerman priest and professor of theology who initiated the Protestant Reformation, this person strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment of sin could be purchased with money, he produced "The Ninety-Five Theses" in 1517, which resulted in his excommunication by the pope.
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Martin Luther
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A Dutch Renaissance humanist and a Catholic priest and theologian, this person was a classical scholar who wrote in a "Pure Latin Style" and has been called "The Crowning Glory of the Christian Humanists."
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Desiderius Erasmus
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A German goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced modern book printing, this person's invention of mechanical movable type printing started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important event in the development of the Renaissance and the spread of learning.
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Johannes Gutenberg
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A priest in Zurich, this person influenced the council of Zurich to introduce religious reforms, which abolished relics and images.
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Ulrich Zwingli
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The influence for a dynamic and activist form of faith, this person believed in predestination and reformed the city of Geneva into a powerful center of Protestantism.
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John Calvin
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Married six times in desire of a male heir, this King of England was best known for his role in the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church.
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King Henry VIII
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Founder of The Society of Jesus, this Spanish nobleman emerged as a religious leader during the Counter-Reformation after abandoning his military life to devote himself to labor for God.
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Ignatius of Loyola
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