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History: The Renaissance

Italian Renaissance timeline
World Book: Italy
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A Beginner's Guide to the Renaissance

Britannica: Henry the Navigator
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Henry the Navigator and the Age of Discoveries
Profile of Prince Henry the Navigator

Britannica: Francis Drake
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World Book: Drake, Sir Francis
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Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake facts

Biography - Marco Polo
15 Surprising Facts about Marco Polo
World Book: Marco Polo
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Marco Polo and his travels

Biography - Christopher Columbus
74 interesting facts about Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus
World Book: Christopher Columbus
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Britannica: East India Company
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The East India Company: How a trading corporation became an imperial ruler
The East India Company: The original corporate raiders

Britannica: Dutch East India Company
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The Dutch East India Company
VOC – United Dutch East India Company

Britannica: Martin Luther
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About Martin Luther: Driven to Defiance
Martin Luther as Priest, Heretic, and Outlaw

Britannica: John Calvin
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John Calvin (1509—1564)
John Calvin

Britannica: Michelangelo
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World Book: Michelangelo
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)

Britannica: Donatello
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World Book: Donatello
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Artble - Donatello
This article is long, but contains information on Donatello's life and career, as well as how his work was received.

Britannica: Sandro Botticelli
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World Book: Botticelli, Sandro
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Artble - Sandro Botticelli
Keep scrolling past his list of works for information about what people thought of Botticelli's art.

Britannica: Raphael
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Artble - Raphael
Raphael (1483-1520)

Britannica: Giovanni Bellini
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Artble - Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516)

The Galileo Project
Britannica: Galileo
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Galileo Matters More Than Ever on His 450th Birthday
Galileo Galilei

Nicolaus Copernicus
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Copernicus, Nicolaus
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15 Facts About Nicolaus Copernicus
Copernicus (1473-1543)

Britannica - Isaac Newton
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Isaac Newton: the man who discovered gravity
Isaac Newton: Who He Was, Why Apples Are Falling

Britannica - Girolamo Fracastoro
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Fracastoro, Girolamo
The Galileo Project: Fracastoro

Britannica: Andreas Vesalius
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Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)
Comparative Anatomy: Andreas Vesalius

Renaissance Italy

Britannica: humanism
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A Guide to Renaissance Humanism
Renaissance Humanism

Britannica: Desiderius Erasmus
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World Book: Erasmus, Desiderius
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Desiderius Erasmus

World Book: Machiavelli, Niccolo
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Britannica: Niccolo Machiavelli
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Niccolo Machiavelli – the Cunning Critic of Political Reason

Britannica: Voltaire
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About Voltaire
Who was Voltaire?

Britannica - Francis Bacon
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Sir Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon and the scientific revolution

Britannica: Medici
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How the Medici family's influences are still felt today
Medici family
World Book: Catherine de Médicis
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Britannica: Borgia family
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The Borgias
Lucrezia Borgia - biography

Britannica: William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare's Life
The Influence of the Renaissance in Shakespeare's Work

Britannica: John Donne
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John Donne
‘Make me new’: the multiple reinventions of John Donne

Britannica: printing press
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The invention and history of the printing press
The printing press

Britannica: Leonardo da Vinci's parachute
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Parachute
Parachute by Leonardo da Vinci

Britannica: Johannes Gutenberg
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Biography of Johannes Gutenberg, Inventor of the Printing Press
Gutenberg Press