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Christine de Pizan wrote The Book of the City of Ladies. This book changed people's views on women of the time for the better.
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First works of Masaccio was buried in the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore and was honored with a marble bust.
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Leonardo da Vinci, undoubtably one of the most interesting Italians in history served as a painter, sculptur, engineer, and scientist in his lifetime.
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Widely known in Italy and was a popular playwright.
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Giorgione was an famous Italian painter of the Renaissance. He is considered mysterious because only 6 paintings are undoubtably his but his artworks are vaued for their poetic quality.
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King Charles VIII of France led an invasion of Italy in 1494. King Charles VIII marched with 25,000 men and took Naples.
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This painting searves as one of Leonardo's most widely know artworks.The painting is of Jesus sharing his last meal with his disciples.
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Leonardo da Vinci fathered art and inspiration during the Renaissance. He will forever be remembered through his work.
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Nicolaus Copernicus published his book named, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. It served as a foundation for astronomy.
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Italian physician and scholar Girolamo Fracastoro proposed that spores could spread epidemic diseases over various distances.
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Originated in 1600s and still plays a dominent role in theater.
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Galileo Galilei was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher. More importantly this important Italian greatly improved the basic telescope design, discoverd the moons of Jupiter and phases of venus, and fathered the scientific method.
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Marcello Malpighi was an italian doctor. He used a microscope to make observations of various veins arteries, and the capillaries joining them.
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Evangelista Torricelli is an Italian physicist and mathematician. He filled half sealed tube with mercury and made observations on how the substance acted.
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In his book called Experiments on the Generation of Insects he explained that life forms like insects are not generated spontaneously.
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Carlo Goldoni was a dramatist from Italy. Be began with writing operas then moved on to plays and overtime casual comedy back to life in Italy.