Monday, May 16th 2011

• How can these people make major changes in society? CHOOSE TWO and write examples for both:

– Writers– Artists– Politicians– Scientists– Inventors– Architects

Key Figures of the Renaissance:

Artists: Painters and Sculptors

Michelangelo: Italian Painter, Sculptor, and the orange Ninja Turtle

Titian: Italian Painter

Albrecht Durer: German Painter, woodblock carver

Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Painter, Sculptor, and blue Ninja Turtle

Scientists and Inventors

Gutenberg: Inventor of the printing press

Copernicus: Polish Astronomer who theorized that the Earth rotates on its axis

Andrea Vesalius: Belgian Scientist who studied human anatomy

Leonardo da Vinci (again): Engineer and Inventor

The aerial screw (helicopter!) The tank. Not created and used until 400 years later, during World War I.

Politicians

Niccolo Machiavelli: Italian Politician and Philosopher

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Elizabeth I, Queen of England

Writers

William Shakespeare: English Poet and Playwright

Works Include: You may recognize these films based on Shakespeare’s works:

- Hamlet- Macbeth- Much Ado About Nothing- A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Romeo and Juliet- Taming of the Shrew- Othello- The Merchant of Venice- The Tempest

- Ten Things I Hate About You (with Julia Stiles)-O, (with Mekhi Phifer)- West Side Story

Miguel Cervantes: Spanish Writer

Don Quixote

Dante Aligheri: Italian Writer (Dante’s Inferno)

Francesco Petrarch: Italian Poet and among the first humanists

Architects

Filippo Brunelleschi: Italian architect