Renaissance Crossword Puzzle

4. A benefactor is someone who pays for public goods such as buildings, arts, and other services
5. A cosmological model where the Sun is considered the center of the solar system, with Earth and other planets orbiting it.
7. Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance
9. Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer
10. The rediscovery and revival of the art, architecture, literature, and philosophy of ancient Greece and Rome
11. A powerful Italian banking family and political dynasty that ruled Florence from the 15th to 18th centuries
12. Becomes more interested in worldly ideas and events, not just religious ones

1. A way of showing people and things as they appear at different distances
2. An emphasis on worldly concerns; beliefs in the worth of the individual and that reason is the path to knowledge
3. German printer and inventor who introduced movable type and the printing press to Europe.
6. A new interest in culture
8. An ancient trade route that linked the Western world with the Middle East and Asia