| Lorenzo
di Piero de' Medici
 Lorenzo
di Piero de' Medici, popularly known as
Lorenzo the Magnificent (il Magnifico)
by his contemporaries, was an Italian
statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine
Republic during the height of the Italian
Renaissance. This patron of the arts was
very popular with his peers and loved
to enter tournaments, compose poetry and
songs in his native Tuscan, play games,
hunt, and indulge in the Florentine love
of practical jokes. »
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Michelangelo
Buonarroti
 Michelangelo
Buonarroti is one of the greatest artists
of all time and his name has become synonymous
with the word "masterpiece". As an artist
he was unmatched, the creator of works
of sublime beauty that express the full
breadth of the human condition. Yet in
world where art flourished only with patronage,
Michelangelo was caught between the conflicting
powers and whims of the Medici family
in Florence, and the Papacy in Rome but
unlike many artists of his time, his genius
was recogonised.
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Leonardo
da Vinci
 The
illegitimate son of a 25-year-old notary,
Ser Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina,
Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in
Vinci, Italy, just outside Florence. His
father took custody of the little fellow
shortly after his birth, while his mother
married someone else and moved to a neighboring
town. Growing up in his father's Vinci
home, Leonardo had access to scholarly
texts owned by family and friends. »
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Elizabeth
Barret Browning
 The
couple Elizabeth Browning and her husband
Robert Browning, has to qualify as one
of the high profile couples of their times.
And it is worth a mention that it was
Elizabeth who shot to fame first and not
Robert, as most people would think. Elizabeth
Moulton Barrett, the English poetess and
political thinker, not to mention, a feminist
as well, was born on the 6th of March,
1806 in Durham, England. She was followed
by the birth of eleven more children.
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Leon
Battista Alberti
 Leon
Battista Alberti was known as the Father
of Modern Architecture. As an Italian
humanist, architect and principal initiator
of Renaissance art theory, Alberti was
a multi-faceted personality with a kaleidoscope
of talent and knowledge, being known as
the prototype of the Renaissance ‘universal
man’. Combining in perfect proportions
and details, Alberti designed the Palazzo
Rucellai on all three floors with the
architecture of Doric, Ionic and Corinthian
pillars. Versatile in both the Latin and
Italian languages, Alberti scripted and
wrote many love poems, fables, Latin comedy
and dialogues. »
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Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi
Tomaso Peruzzi is the
world famous Italian painter, architect,
and designer who has created several masterpieces
in the Renaissance period. From the Villa
Farnesina to the Madonna with the Saints
he has contributed a lot to architecture
and painting. He was also a master in
theatre settings and excelled in that
during King Leo X’s reign. He died
at a considerably young age of 57, in
1537. »
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