Fillipo Brunelleschi
Renaissance Figures

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He built the dome (cathedral in Florence), came up with linear perspective, created amazing bronzes, and was named the 'father of architecture' even though he had no previous architectural experience.
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Thomas More
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Wrote 'Utopia', worked for the king of England, was sentenced to death for being unloyal to King Henry VIII, and was later made a saint.
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Dante Alighieri
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Wrote the 'Divine Comedy', including Paradiso, Inferno, and Pergatorio. One of the fathers of modern Italian. Exiled because he took the wrong side of the war.
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Petrarch
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'Father of Humanism', believed that people can be religious and regular at the same time. Known as the First Tourist, because he wrote about his travels.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Wrote 'The Canterbury Tales' during the war. Known as the 'Father of English Literature'. Wrote the 'Book of the Duchess' about John of Gaunt's dead wife.
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William Shakespeare
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Made a new style of writing tragedies and comedies, expanded the English vocabulary, wrote 37 plays, and over 150 sonnets.
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Lorenzo de'Medici
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Ruler of Florence, patron of many famous artists, major architectural commission was the Villa Medici. Commissioned Machiavelli.
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