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| William Shakespeare | Writer from England who wrote famous plays including "Hamlet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream." |
| Johannes Gutenberg | Invented the printing press. |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Spanish author best known for his novel entitled "Don Quixote de la Mancha." |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | Famous writer from England who wrote "The Canterbury Tales." |
| 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 greatest vernacular poems entitled "The Divine Comedy." |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Renaissance artist, scientist, engineer, and inventor who kept detailed sketches of ideas including helicopters, gliders, and parachutes in notebooks. One of his famous paintings is "The Mona Lisa" |
| Humanism | Based on Roman and Greek Culture, humanists believed in balance between faith and reason. |
