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Early Italian scholars turned to Greek and Roman literature to study grammar,history,poetry and rhetoric. The people who studied these cultures where known as humanists.
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Franchesco Petrarch became famous as a scholar and teacher. He was also a poet who wrote sonnets to Laura, a imagineary ideal woman, was considered some of the greatest of poems in literature.
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Leonardo de Vinci was a achitect, engineer,painter, sculptor, and scientist. He made scatching of plants and animals and also made blueprints for a flying machine and a submarine.
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Michelangelo is a important painter whom is well known throughout the renessance. Michelangelo is fameous for his work on the sistine chapel frescoes.
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Humanists had argued thaat the Roman Catholic church had lost sight of its spiritual mission. The reform movement would split the church in western Europe.
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Niccolo' Machiavelli was a Florance diplomat and Historian who did not put tention between spiritual and earthly quests. He wrote The Prince to describe the goverment not in terms of lofty ideals, but in the way it actually worked.
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Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia to show currupt goverment and argued private ownership of propety causes conflicts between people.
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The 95 theses where written by Martin Luther and commented on indulgences. Indulgences where pardons from punishment from sin that where baught almost as a fund raiser for the church.
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Before 1529 Henry VIII had defended the catholic church and was given the title "Defender of the Faith". Henry Denounced the church because Pope Clement VII would not allow Henry to devorce Catherine of Argon.
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Huguenots where high ranking nobles who had converted to Calvinism. In 1562, the Huguenots where forced to defend themselves from the Cathloics in a series of bloody civil wars.
