https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za Made with no regrets, whatsoever en-us 2016-11-17 16:51:13 UTC 2026-02-05 17:52:29 UTC hello@padlet.com 4801770355 https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138479245 Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe. Gutenberg's masterpiece, and the first book ever printed in Europe from movable type, is the “Forty-Two-Line” Bible. ]]> 2016-11-17 17:00:06 UTC https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138479245 4801770355 https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138481039 This is the capital of Italy’s Tuscany region, and home to many masterpieces of Renaissance art and architecture. One of its most iconic sights is the Duomo, a cathedral with a terracotta-tiled dome engineered by Brunelleschi. It was also the heart of the Renaissance.]]> 2016-11-17 17:04:31 UTC https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138481039 4801770355 https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138481414 Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. He most famous for creating the "Mona Lisa".]]> 2016-11-17 17:05:30 UTC https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138481414 4801770355 https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138482903 Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. He was the man responsible for the priceless paintings in the Sistine Chapel. His most famous art work is a sculpture of david.]]> 2016-11-17 17:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138482903 4801770355 https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138484039 Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His most famous work of art is called "The School of Athens". ]]> 2016-11-17 17:12:15 UTC https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138484039 4801770355 https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138485396 Baldassare Castiglione, 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". The book helped spread Italian humanism throughout western Europe and influenced the concept of what a gentleman should be.]]> 2016-11-17 17:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138485396 4801770355 https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138486170 Niccolò Machiavelli, or more formally Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, was an Italian Renaissance historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, and writer. He has often been called the founder of modern political science. Niccolò Machiavelli is best known for "The Prince".]]> 2016-11-17 17:17:02 UTC https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138486170 4801770355 https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138487771 William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". He is known for writing extraordinary plays such as, "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet", "Macbeth",  "Julius Caesar", and "The Tempest".]]> 2016-11-17 17:20:36 UTC https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138487771 4801770355 https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138551994 Sir Thomas More, known by Roman Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. More served as an important counselor to King Henry VIII of England, serving as his key counselor in the early 1500s, but after he refused to accept the king as head of the Church of England, he was tried for treason and beheaded.]]> 2016-11-17 20:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138551994 4801770355 https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138552552 Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian.  In 1516 he published the annotated New Testament, virtually the first Greek text.]]> 2016-11-17 20:10:12 UTC https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138552552 4801770355 https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138553013 Albrecht Dürer was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Albrecht Durer was the first German artist to emerge north of the Alps. One of his most famous works of art is called "Praying Hands".]]> 2016-11-17 20:11:49 UTC https://padlet.com/4801770355/7dpbbwtgm5za/wish/138553013