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Florentine Republic and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.
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The Gutenberg Bible was the first major book printed using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe.
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De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres), written by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) and published just before his death,
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Sir Thomas More, venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist.
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It was painted sometime between 1503 and 1519 potent when Leonardo was living in Florence, and it now hangs in the Louvre, in Paris, where it remains an object of pilgrimage in the 21st century.
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Michelangelo was asked by the consuls of the Board to complete an unfinished
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The traditional date for the start of the Reformation is October 31, 1517,
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Church of England broke with Rome, largely because Pope Clement VII refused to grant Henry an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
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William Shakespeare born. According to tradition, the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-on-Avon
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discovered that the density of liquids (how much they contract and expand) reacts predictably to changes in temperature. ... Because his device did not have a numerical temperature scale,