Ancient poet Dante takes on a hellish trip.

Italian scientist was the first to

peer through a telescope.

Responsible for the Inquisitions, “Heresy, the greatest of all sins”.

Italian “Supreme Poet” wrote the Divine Comedy

 not in

Latin, but in vernacular dialect, a common man's language.

Polish scientist turned the universe upside down saying Earth is not the

at the center.

German scientist announces a heliocentric world, The Sun is the Center

of the universe

This sculpture, painter, inventor and

humanist painted The Last Supper and Mona Lisa.

Posted the 95 Theses on the Castle Church door to incite debate and

reform

Frenchman who wants to hold the status quo, "don't question!"

This English author, poet,

bureaucrat, diplomat and philosopher wrote The Canterbury Tales, not in French

or Latin but in vernacular Middle English dialect, the language of the common

man.

Intelligent, young man from Mirandola, Italy, wrote

Oration of the

Divinity of Man

French thinker apologizes for his countryman in 

Apology for

Raymond Sebond.