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| Niccolo Machiavelli | Wrote The Prince, an essay to serve as a handbook for rulers. He wrote that it is better for a ruler to be feared than loved. |
| Francesco Petrarch | Writer who led in the development of Renaissance humanism. He studied the classics and wrote hundreds of love poems in the Roman style. |
| William Shakespeare | Best known as a playwright, who wrote poems set in ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval times and the Renaissance. His plays explored human behavior and feelings |
| Desiderius Erasmus | In The Praise of Folly he criticized the scholars of his time for being narrow minded. He argued that the church had become too narrow minded |
| Miguel de Cervantes | The greatest Spanish writer of the Renaissanc. In his Don Quixote he mocked Medieval codes of behavior |
| Sir Thomas Moore | His book, Utopia, described an ideal peaceful society. He was also critical of the society and religion of his times |
| Michelangelo | Artist and sculptor who painted biblical events from the great creation to the floods of Noah's time on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel |
| Leonardo da Vinci | painted the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. He was also an engineer, scientist and inventor who was far ahead of his time |
| Raphael | He was inspired by Michelangelo, painted biblical and classical scenes. he is known for capturing the mood and personality of his subjects |
| Giotto | One of the earliest Renaissance painters. He was one of the first Italian painters to paint the things he observed in nature. He is considered to be the founder of western pictorial art. |
| Rembrandt | Dutch painter who studied the Italian painters. He is knowwn for his use of light color and shadow. The Night Watch is his most famous painting |
| El Greco | One of Spain's greatest painters. use saints as subjects and color to create a feeling of spirituality |
| Masaccio | one of the first painters to apply mathametical laws to show perspective in his painting |
| Donatello | He was the teacher of Michaelangelo. He is called the father of modern sculpture |
| Johannes Gutenberg | the first to use movable type to print books |
