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| Cosimo Medici | (1434-1464) Held authority in the republic of Florence; aided Milan in a Venice-Milan power struggle |
| Lorenzo Medici | (1469-1492) Ruled in Florence republic during the French invasion |
| Savonarola | (1452-1498) Dominican Friar who criticized the rule of Lorenzo Medici, the problems of his city, and the corruption of the pope; excommunicated and executed |
| Francesco Petrarch | Poet and himanist who belived in the Reaissance; lived at the start of a new age |
| Pico Della Mirandola | wrote "On the Dignity of Man", an essay about man's dignity because he was created in the image of God |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | (1313-1375) humanist author from Florence; wrote "The Decameron" about people who retreated to the country to escape the plague |
| Michelangelo | (1475-1564) Sculptor and painted;David and Sistine Chapel among most famous works; a model of the Renaissance Man |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | (1452-1519) Renaissance Man; painted, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist; Mona Lisa, Last Supper among most famous works |
| Raphael | (1483-1520) painter who attened; school of Athens; used proportion, perspective, and realism |
| Giotto | (1267-1337) influential Renaissance painter; first to portray realistic human figures |
| Donatello | (c. 1386-1466) sculptor; first to craft nude figures which later became very common throughout the Renaissance |
| Gentile Bellini | (c. 1431-1507) painter; narrative scenes, perspective |
| Baldassare Castiglione | writer on education; wrote "The Courtier" in 1528 |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | (1469-1527) in government before Medici's return; wrote "The Prince", philosophy "the end justifies the means" |
| Johann Gutenberg | invented movable type around 1455 |
| Laura Cereta | (1469-1499) educated Renaissance woman who believed in women's potential |
| Thomas Moore | (1478-1535) English humanist, wrote "Utopia" which depicts ideal society; executed because he didn't recognize King Henry VIII as the head of the Church of England |
| Desiderius Erasmus | (c. 1466-1536) northern and Christian humanist; work later contributed to Protestant Reformation; published new translations of the New Testament in Greek and Latin |
| Francois Rabelais | (c. 1490-1553) French secular humanist and writer; believed education was critical. |
| Jan Van Eyck | (1366-1441) Flemish painter who used realism and was equal to Italian painters during the Renaissance |
| Rogier Van Der Weyden | (c. 1400-1464) Femish painter; used realism |
| Jerome Bosch | (c. 1450-1516) Flemish painter, religious and grotesque themes that reflected confusion of the end of the Middle Ages |
| Charles VII of France | (r. 1422-1462) revived French monarchy and remodeled army; asserted superiority of general council over papacy. |
| Louis XI of France | (r. 1461-1483) "spider king"; thought money was the answer to everything; gained some of Burgundy and other territories; royal absolutism |
| Edward IV of England | (r. 1461-1483) Welsh Tudor who restored royal prestige, crushed noble power and established law at local level |
| Richard III of England | (r. 1483-1485)Welsh Tudor who restored royal prestige, crushed noble power and established law at local level, succeeded Edward IV |
| Henry VII of England | (r.1485-1509)Welsh Tudor who restored royal prestige, crushed noble power and established law at local level, succeeded Richard III |
| Catherine of Aragon | wife of Arthur, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella; her marriage helped secure recognition of Tudors |
| Lorenzo Valla | (1406-1457) humanist; father of modern historical criticism; wrote "on Pleasure" and "on the False Donation of Constatine" |
