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| Petrarch | Italian poet and scholar whose interest in ancient literature helped start the Renaissance. |
| Lorenzo de'Medici | Renaissance patron of the arts. |
| Michelangelo | Italian Renaissance artist, painted the Cistine chapel. |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Renaissance painter and inventor, created the Mona Lisa. |
| Martin Luther | German monk and teacher, led the Reformation. |
| Johann Gutenburg | German printer- 1st use movable type. |
| Elizabeth I | Queen of England, 1558-1603, greatly increased England's power. |
| Francis Drake | Englishman who defeated the Spanish armada. |
| William Shakespeare | Great English poet and playwritrer, during Elizabethan England. |
