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Johannes Gutenberg was a german inventor born in 1395, who developed a method of portable type and used it to create one of the Western world's first major printed books, the “Forty-Two-Line” Bible. His work as an inventor and printer had a major impact on the development of communication and learning worldwide which were the main characteristics of renaissance.

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Durer was a german artist born in 1471, Nuremberg. He is considered to be the greatest renaissance artist of his country. He made watercolour sketches as he travelled over the Alps, these are the first pure landscapes ever produced in Western Art.

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Thomas was born in London, England year 1477. After he refused to accept the king as head of the Church of England, he was tried for treason and beheaded in the year of 1535. He was known by his famous book "Utopia" in reference to an ideal political system in which policies are governed by reason. He was one of the most important reformers of renaissance. Thomas was against church's political power

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He was born in the UK, 1564, influenced the Renaissance by standardizing the English language and expanding its vocabulary, deepening the humanity of the characters in his plays using references to Greek and Roman mythology in his writing. His attention to the difficulties of language, characterization and plot became an example to follow for future playwrights and other writers.

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Michelangelo was born in 1475, Caprese, Italy.  He designed the Medici Chapel and the Laurentian Library, located opposite the Basilica San Lorenzo in Florence. His most famous sculpture is over 14 feet tall and its lifelike qualities surpass other sculptures of that era. It took 3 years to complete this piece of art.  He wanted to know how the body functioned so he could capture and express realistic shapes in his subjects. His efforts toward perfection contributed to renaissance.

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Raphael was born in 1483, Urbino, Italy. One of his most famous paintings was the Stanza della Segnatura ("Room of the Signatura"). Raphael's movement toward Mannerism influenced painting styles in Italy’s advancing renaissance period.

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Petrarch was born in 1304, in Arezzo, Tuscany. He was non by "the father of humanism". His philosophy, poems influenced the population's intellectual growth that is now not only based on religion (beliefs, faith) but it's also based on reason.

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Baldassare was born in Casatico near Mantua in the year 1478. During his stay at the court of Urbino, he wrote a book called "The Book Of The Courtier". His book influenced the Renaissance in many ways like the behaviour expectations of the courtier and what a wife should do to help her husband. Baldassare said that the courtier should be of noble birth. He also had a broad education in different areas such as literature. Another accomplishment of Castiglione was a drama called "Tirsi"

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Da Vinci was born on April 15 1452, in Vinci, Italy. he had a curious mind and intellect, da Vinci studied the laws of science and nature, which were subjects related to his work as a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, military engineer and draftsman. Leonardo's ideas and body of work like the "Virgin of the Rocks," "The Last Supper" and "Mona Lisa" influenced countless artists throughout Europe during his era and made da Vinci a leading light of the Italian Renaissance.

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This is the capital of Italy, It has a impressive architecture that includes the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. Florence during renaissance saw itself as the ideal city state, where the freedom of the individual was guaranteed, and where many citizens had the right to participate in the government.

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Born in Netherlands(1466), was the first big Renaissance artist. He was a great sculptor. He revived the Greco-Roman style of stand alone and realistic sculptures.

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Erasmus, born in 1466, translated the Bible from Latin to his local language(vernacular) for the first time in history.

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Born in 1469, his philosophy was spread throughout the world during Renaissance, stating that absolute power is the ideal form of government.