Literature
In 1455, Johann Gutenberg did this with the first ever printing press.
Printed the first printed Bible
He was the 1st great sculptor of the Renaissance.
Donatello
A mathematician and philosopher who said “I think therefore, I am”
Rene Descartes
He was a German Monk who wrote 95 theses against the church.
Martin Luther
He was a king who went through six wives.
Henry VIII
This man translated the Bible into vernacular language.
Erasmus
He was one of the best artists but also an inventor & scientist whose sketches reveal observations about human anatomy.
Leonardo da Vinci
He formed the heliocentric model of the universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Religious group formed by John Calvin that believed in predestination.
Calvinism
The birth place of the Renaissance.
Florence
The Renaissance Author who wrote The Book of the Courtier and said men and women were well mannered and educated- by nature we are good.
Baldassare Castiglione
His sculptures & paintings showed realism, detail of
the human body, & expression to show personality & emotion
Michelangelo
He created a telescope to watch the moons moving around Jupiter- concluded this is how the Earth moves around the sun.
Galileo Galilei
Lutheranism split into this.
Protestantism
This Pope excommunicated Martin Luther.
Pope Leo X
The Renaissance author who wrote The Prince, argues that we are all born bad, and says it is better to rule by fear instead of love.
Machiavelli
He was the student of Michelangelo and Da Vinci.
Raphael
An apple fell on his head and he started studying gravity.
Isaac Newton
Pope Charles V summoned Luther to this at the city of Worms.
A diet
He created the Utopia.
Sir Thomas More
William Shakespeare added this many words to the English language.
1700 words
One of the only known late artists of The Renaissance.
El Greco
Francis Bacon
This was money spent to lessen the time one’s soul has to spend in purgatory.
Indulgences
She took over as queen after Mary Tudor died.
Elizabeth I