Renaissance and Reformation Overview

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Medici Family

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Powerful in Florence; politics, trade, banking

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Cosimo de Medici

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Banker, politician, patron of arts

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Sforza Family

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Controlled Milan during Renaissance

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Petrarch

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Founder of Renaissance Humanism

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Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

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Oration on the Dignity of Man

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Leonardo Bruni

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First modern historian, three-period history

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Baldassare Castiglione

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The Book of the Courtier, etiquette of nobles

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Donatello

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Sculptor, bronze statue of David

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Artist, Mona Lisa, Vitruvian Man

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Michelangelo

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Sculptor, Sistine Chapel ceiling