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Invented the printing press in the 1950's. The first book to be printed was a Latin lanuage Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany.
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Leonardo was an Italian polymath: painter, sculpter, architect, musician, writer ect.. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".
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Michelangelo was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculpter, architect, poet and engineer.
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Ignatius of Loyola was a Spanish knight from a Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus and was its first Superior General.
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Wrote the prince, describing how government should not be concerned with lofty ideals. Rulers should only be concerned with power and poloitical success.
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Utopia was More's best sketched and his best known and most controversial work.
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The priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
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Martin Luther was a Germain priest and professor of theology who initiated the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment of sin could be purchased with money
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Calvin wanted a city controlled by the clergy - a theocracy.
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The council held a number of meetings, with the three main sessions occurring, the drawn-out sessions, and long delays between them, meant that representatives changed over the course of the council.
