Renaissance: Personalities

Boccaccio:  Early Renaissance writer; Decameron

Giotto:  Early Renaissance artist; perspective

Lorenzo d'Medici:  politician from Florence

Petrarch:  early Renaissance poet

Donatello:  sculptor

Raphael:  secular artist of the 1500's

El Greco

Michelangelo

Leonardo di Vinci

Castiglione:  humanist writer:  The Courtier

Machiavelli:  writer;  The Prince

Copernicus