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Famous Renaissance People
Writers, Artists, Scientists
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| William Shakespeare | Writer from England who wrote famous plays including Ha,let, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Francesco Petrarch | Poet and scholar who encouraged Europeans to search for Latin manuscripts; he is often called the father of Italian renaissance humanism |
| Dante Alighieri | A Poet from Florence who wrote one of the world's greated vernacular poems entitled The Divine Comedy |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | Famous writer form England who wrote The Canterbury Tales |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Spanish author best known for his novel entitled Don Quixote de la Mancha |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Renaissance artists, scientist, and inventor who painted the Mona Lisa; he kept detailed sketches of ideas including helicopters, gliders, and parachutes in notebooks |
| Ptolemy and al-Idrisi | Geographers who led int he advances in cartography |
| Johannes Gutenberg | German goldsmith who invented the printing press |
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