https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik Who Am I? en-us 2016-11-17 13:33:46 UTC 2025-10-01 09:50:06 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png 4801768148 https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138389131 A city in the Tuscany region of northern Italy that was the center of the Italian Renaissance. ]]> 2016-11-17 13:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138389131 4801768148 https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138389862 An artist who had an endless curiosity that fed a genius for invention. He made sketches and models in his studio and dissected corpses to learn about the human body. His art showed realism. ]]> 2016-11-17 13:48:02 UTC https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138389862 4801768148 https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138393417 He was a sculptor, engineer, painter, architect, and poet. One of his greatest projects was painting a series of murals to decorate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. His most famous design was for the St. Peter's Cathedral.]]> 2016-11-17 13:55:49 UTC https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138393417 4801768148 https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138396169 He was widely admired for his artistic talent. He studied work of the great masters but created his own style of painting that blended Christian and classical styles. He is best known for his painting "The School of Athens".]]> 2016-11-17 14:02:15 UTC https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138396169 4801768148 https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138398260  He 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.]]> 2016-11-17 14:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138398260 4801768148 https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138421214  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.]]> 2016-11-17 14:55:00 UTC https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138421214 4801768148 https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138422093  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.]]> 2016-11-17 14:56:46 UTC https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138422093 4801768148 https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138423194 Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe.]]> 2016-11-17 14:58:59 UTC https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138423194 4801768148 https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138424102 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.]]> 2016-11-17 15:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138424102 4801768148 https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138424912 Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian. Erasmus was a classical scholar and wrote in a pure Latin style.]]> 2016-11-17 15:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138424912 4801768148 https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138436387 Sir Thomas More, venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. ]]> 2016-11-17 15:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138436387 4801768148 https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138437175 William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet.]]> 2016-11-17 15:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/4801768148/lzqa148sf1ik/wish/138437175