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The plays written by English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western literature.

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Sir Thomas More, venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist

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Laid the egg that Martin Luther hatched. Was a critic of the Church, however he did not want to break away from the Church.
Translated the Bible into the vernacular!

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Albrecht Dürer was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his high-quality woodcut prints

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Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe

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Francesco Petrarca, commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Renaissance

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diplomat, count of Casatico, was an Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author, who is probably most famous for his authorship of The Book of the Courtier.

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He was a painter and architect that made contributions to florence

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He was a sculptor, architect, and painter he made many contributions to florence here are some down below.

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eonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science. He made many works of art and science advancements in the renaissance.

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The heart of the Renaissances, the Medici family paid talented people to come to Florence

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Who Was Desiderius Erasmus? Why Did Desiderius Erasmus Have to Do with the Textus Receptus and the King James Version? Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch theologian and the scholar behind what is now known as the Textus Receptus. In a day when the only Bible available was the Latin Vulgate, Erasmus sought to produce a textually accurate Greek New Testament.

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Wrote the Prince. The Prince is about politics. "The end justifies the means."  Machiavelli described immoral behavior, such as dishonesty and killing innocents, as being normal and effective in politics. He even seemed to endorse it in some situations.
His political philosophy would be adopted by absolute Monarchs.