Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa in 1451 and he died in Spain in 1506.
He was an Italian explorer, a navigator and a trader. He worked as a cartographer in Italy before becoming a businessman.
He visited England, Ireland, Iceland as well as Spain and Portugal and traded along the Western African coast during his journeys.
Christopher Columbus completed four journeys across the Atlantic Ocean and was the first to reach the Americas. hristopher Columbus discovered America in 1492.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was born in Vinci near Florence in 1452 and he died in 1519.
He was a real genius. He studied and explored new ideas throughout his life. He was a painter, a sculptor, an architect and an engineer.
His famous painting Mona Lisa can bee seen in the Louvre in Paris.
Leonardo Da Vinci also invited many things and explored new concepts, like the calculator, a flight machine similar to a helicopter and a tank.
Michelangel0
Michelangelo was born in 1475 and he died in 1564. He was a painter, a sculptor, an engineer and an architect of the Renaissance.
Michelangelo was already famous during his lifetime and is still considered to be one of the most talented artists of all time.
Michelangelo’s David stands in the Academy Gallery in Florence.
Galileo Galilei
Galileo was born in 1564 and he died in 1642. He was a mathematician and an astronomer.
He is often called the ‘Father of Science’. He improved the telescope and studied the Milky Way. He supported Copernicius’s observations that the world circled the sun, not that the sun circled the earth as it was believed before.
Galileo Galilei also discovered the four largest satellites of Jupiter, which are called the Galilean moons.
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri was born in 1265 and he died in 1321. He is famous as Dante and is a well-known Italian poet of the Middle Ages.
His poem, the Divine Comedy, which is a world-renowned masterpiece, is considered to be his greatest work. It is the very first book written and published in Italian.
He is known as the Father of the Italian Language, and referred to as the Supreme Poet.