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Baldassare Castiglione
The Courtier
How Perfect
Renaissance ladies
and Gentlemen
should act.
He was NOT bald!
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Lorenzo de Medici
Patron of the Arts
Well educated poet
Johannes Gutenberg
Printing Press
Made the moveable type
metal type printing press.
It is named after him.
William Shakespeare
Mid Summer
Nights Dream
Hamlet
Henry V
Poet and Play writer
Sir Thomas More
Humanist
Utopia
English Statesman
Ideal Society
Based on Reason
Henry VIII
Became King in
1509 at age 17
Catholic
Won Defender of
Faith
Six wives
Leonardo de Vinci
The Renaissance Man
Mona Lisa
His two most famous
paintings.
The Last Supper
A writer, painter, inventor,
architect, engineer, musician
and mathematician.
Niccolo Machiavelli
• Author of The Prince.
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An Italian political philosopher that had influential views about government.
Encouraged harsh treatment of citizens and rival states.
“A ruler must do anything to maintain power.”
Raffaello Sanzio
• A painter and architect
• Nicknamed Raphael.
Many paintings of the
Madonna, mother of
Jesus
The School of Athens
Donato Bramante
• Chosen architect of Rome.
• Designed St. Peter’s Basilica
St. Peter’s Basilica
Desiderius Erasmus
• The leading Christian humanist.
• A priest that wrote about a need for a pure and simple Christian life.
• Advised readers on educating children.
• Was a priest in the Netherlands.
Martin Luther
• One of the first to make public complaints about the
church.
• The Ninety-five Theses.
Nailed complaints
to church door.
Printing press
allowed theses
to spread
through Europe.
Christine de Pisan
• A female writer from Italy.
• Wrote The City of Women
• In this book, she tells of the different views of women and
their role in society.
Queen Elizabeth 1
• A queen of England.
• Drafted a Supremacy Act in 1559, Split England once
again from Rome.
• The daughter of Henry the Eighth, his second.
• She established the Church of England.