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Period: Jan 1, 1350 to Jan 1, 1550
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1404
Christine de Pizan
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. -
Apr 15, 1446
Filippo Brunelleschi
First works of Masaccio was buried in the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore and was honored with a marble bust. -
Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci, undoubtably one of the most interesting Italians in history served as a painter, sculptur, engineer, and scientist in his lifetime. -
Mar 5, 1469
Niccolo Machiavelli
Widely known in Italy and was a popular playwright. -
Dec 13, 1477
Giorgione
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. -
Jan 1, 1494
Italian War
King Charles VIII of France led an invasion of Italy in 1494. King Charles VIII marched with 25,000 men and took Naples. -
Apr 5, 1498
The Last Supper
This painting searves as one of Leonardo's most widely know artworks.The painting is of Jesus sharing his last meal with his disciples. -
May 2, 1519
Leonardo da Vinci's death
Leonardo da Vinci fathered art and inspiration during the Renaissance. He will forever be remembered through his work. -
May 23, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus published his book named, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. It served as a foundation for astronomy. -
Mar 17, 1546
Girolamo Fracastoro
Italian physician and scholar Girolamo Fracastoro proposed that spores could spread epidemic diseases over various distances. -
Period: Dec 13, 1550 to
The Scientific Revolution
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Italian Opera
Originated in 1600s and still plays a dominent role in theater. -
Galileo Galilei
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. -
Marcello Malpighi
Marcello Malpighi was an italian doctor. He used a microscope to make observations of various veins arteries, and the capillaries joining them. -
Evangelista Torricelli
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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The Enlightenment
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Francesco Redi
In his book called Experiments on the Generation of Insects he explained that life forms like insects are not generated spontaneously. -
Carlo Goldoni
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.