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Lorenzo de' Medici was born in Florence Italy.
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The Gutenberg Bible was among the earliest major books printed using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe.
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David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo.
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The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
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Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More, written in Latin and published in 1516.
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Martin Luther marched up to the castle church in Wittenberg and nailed his 95 Theses to the door, lighting the flame of the Reformation, the split between the Catholic and Protestant churches.
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The 1534 Act of Supremacy established the Church of England, or the Anglican Church.
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Nicolas Copernicus published On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres just before his death.
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William Shakespeare was born in April of 1564.
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Galileo Galilei invented a rudimentary water thermoscope.
