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These are some excellent web tours that give you background information about the Renaissance. Take time to "travel" through them and learn.

The Renaissance Connection
Renaissance - What inspired this age? from PBS
Virtual Renaissance - A Journey Through Time

Who's Who in the Renaissance & Reformation?

Who were the amazine artists, scientists, explorers, writers & thinkers of the Renaissance and Reformation? They were incredible risk-takers & made many changes in the world of their time. Listed below are some websites about individuals you will choose to study. And don't forget to use WilsonWeb Biographies Plus, World Book Encyclopedia, and World Almanac on the BroncoNET homepage for additional information.

Rulers
  Edward IV (England)
  Henry VIII (England)
  Anne Boleyn (England)
  Mary Tudor (England)
  Elizabeth I (England)
  Mary Stuart (England) - from the BBC
  Philip II (Spain)
  Lorenzo [the Magnificent] de Medici (Italy)
       another Lorenzo de Medici site
  Giovanni de Medici/Pope Leo X
  King Ferdinand (Portugal)
  Queen Isabella (Portugal)
  Charles VII (France)
  Louis XII (France)
Explorers
  Columbus & other New World Explorers
  Christopher Columbus (Italian)
  John Cabot (Italian)
  Sebastian Cabot (Italian)
  Amerigo Vespucci (Italian)
  Francisco Pizarro (Spanish) use links @left
  Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (Spanish)
  Hernando de Soto (Spanish)
  Vasco da Gama (Portuguese)
  Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese)
  Pedro Cabral (Portuguese)
  Ponce de Leon (Spanish)
Artists
Renaissance Art
  Botticelli 
  Donatello
  Lorenzo Ghiberti
  Leonardo da Vinci
     more Leonardo da Vinci
     Leonardo da Vinci timeline w/ illustrations
  Michelangelo Buonarroti
     another Michelangelo site
  Raphael
  Titian
  Albrecht Durer
  Rembrandt van Rijn
  Rubens
Musicians
  Giovanni Gabrieli
  Giovanni Pierluigi di Palestrina
Scientists, Mathematicians
  Galileo Galilei
  Nicolas Copernicus
     another Copernicus site
  Isaac Newton
     another Newton site
  Johann Gutenberg
     Gutenberg bio - from his hometown
  John Napier & Napier's Bones

Women of Reknown
   Isabella d'Este, First Lady of the Renaissance (portrait)
   Catherine de Medici

Religious Leaders
  Martin Luther
  Joan of Arc
  Desiderius Erasmus
  John Knox
  John Calvin
Writers
  William Shakespeare
  Sir Thomas More
  Miguel de Cervantes

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