Dante

Was an Italian poet who wrote a book called the Divine Comedy. Later on this book was split into three books: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Inferno was about him being lead through the seven Rings of Hell by the Roman poet Virgil. Purgatorio was about him being lead by Virgil again up the Mountain of Purgatory to Heaven. Paradiso is about Heaven. Dante wrote books on the world and its people because the categories in his books can almost always classify us.

Berlioz

He first went to Paris to study Medicine which he did not enjoy and then was disgusted by it because of dissecting a dead body. To his parents dismay he abandoned medical studies to do music. He created a symphony called Symphonie fantastique, which a friend rewrote to play on piano.

Michelangelo

Michelangelo's dad saw his son was good at drawing and made him an apprentice of a painter named Ghirlandaio. He lived with the Medicis for a while and learned to sculpt. Once he got famous the pope, Pope Julius II, had him paint the celing of the Sistine Chapel. He is famous for sculpting David, a statue meant to look like David from the Bible story of David and Goliath.

Amerigo Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci was born in 1454, in Portugal. He was usually accredited for the discovery that America is actually a new continent. But the letters that he probably wrote and made him quite famous were probably accounts based on his voyages and may not have been written by him. One fact I found interesting was that Christopher Columbus held no ill will towards Vespucci. The letters I just talked about pointed to him having 4 voyages but there is not must information on the fourth or if there was even a fourth voyage.

Beethoven

was born in 1770. He was very talented at the piano and had 9 symphonies. In his last symphone he introduced singers in symphonies. He was known for being very eccentric. The 9th symphonie is usally called Ode to Joy.

Montezuma II

Was the emperor of the Aztec Empire when at its highest.

Mozart

Was a child prigody. Wrote his first piece of music at the age of 5. His father taught him to be a great musician. He excelled at violins and keyboards. He spent much of his life in vienna and proved to be excellent at operas. He died at the age of 35.