Creating a Timeline for the Renaissance

 The FORMAT:  Includes the date  Each point along the line has a title (ex. Invention of the Printing Press)  Each point has enough detail so that you can explain what is going on  You have the freedom to arrange your timeline however you want, as long as it is organized!  This WILL be included in your grade, and will have the weight of a quiz – more than a regular class assignment!  Each date should have a picture or a symbol that represents the event. NO LAST MINUTE DOODLES will count! What Your Timeline Must Look Like

 1509: Erasmus publishes The Praise of Folly  1450: Gutenberg invents the printing press  1516: Thomas More publishes Utopia  1532: Rabelais publishes Gargantua and Pantagruel  1321: Alighieri writes The Divine Comedy  1436: Brunelleschi completes the Duomo  1547: Miguel Cervantes born  1564: William Shakespeare born  1599: Shakespeare publishes many works, including Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, Hamlet  1475: Michelangelo born  1452: Leonardo da Vinci born  1300’s Renaissance begins  1513: Machiavelli publishes The Prince  1470: Lorenzo de Medici is a patron of the arts  1400’s: humanism, secularism, individualism begin Timeline