Renaissance Vocabulary

5. Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany during most of the period from 1434 to 1737
7. Italian Renaissance artist, architect, engineer, and scientist
9. a period in European civilization that was marked by a revival of Classical learning and wisdom
10. The most recognized painting in the world. A portrait of the wife of a Florentine merchant
12. renowned English poet, playwright, and actor
13. designed and built the first known mechanized printing press in Europe
14. not religious

1. a philosophy of life that considers the welfare of humankind - rather than the welfare of a supposed God or gods - to be of paramount importance
2. a form of mural painting in which earth pigments are painted directly on fresh, wet, lime plaster
3. an ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants exist under seemingly perfect conditions
4. using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language
6. Italian artist, architect, and poet
8. Sneaky, cunning, and lacking a moral code
11. English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist