Table of Contents
People
Albrecht Dürer
Amerigo Vespucci
Christopher Columbus
Coluccio Salutati
Dante Alighieri
Donatello
Edmund Spenser
El Greco
Erasmus
Filippo Brunelleschi
Francesco Petrarch
Francis Bacon
Galileo Galilei
Gerardus Mercator
Jan van Eyck
Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Kepler
Leonardo Bruni
Leonardo da Vinci
Lorenzo de’ Medici
Martin Luther
Medici
Michel de Montaigne
Michelangelo
Niccolò Machiavelli
Nicolaus Copernicus
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Poggio Bracciolini
Raphael
Sandro Botticelli
Thomas More
Titian
Tycho Brahe
William Shakespeare
Artwork and Literature
“95 Theses”
“The Birth of Venus"
“The Creation of Adam”
“David”
“Don Quixote”
“Farnese Hours”
“The Last Supper”
“Mona Lisa”
“Oration on the Dignity of Man”
“Saint John the Baptist”
“Vitruvian Man”
Places
City states
Europe
Florence
Florence Cathedral
Italy
New World
Sistine Chapel
Innovations
Accounting (the development of)
Architecture
Art perspective
Building domes
Concrete (how to make)
Copernican heliocentrism
Diplomacy
Education reforms
Empirical evidence
Humanism
Intellectualism
Linear perspective
Modern banking
Movable type
Polyphonic
Printing press (the invention of)
Protestant Reformation
Realism
The scientific method
Scientific revolution
Studia Humanitatis
Overall
15th-16th centuries
Academia
Ancient texts (the study of)
Classic antiquity
Classic Greek philosophy
Cultural movement
Greek
Latin
Libraries
Literature
Mathematics
Music
Patronage
Polymath
Renaissance Man
Renaissance Papacy
Rinascita (origin of ‘Renaissance’, meaning ‘rebirth’)
Scholars
Science
Technology
Urbanization
Wealth