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- 4. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance. Painted the Mona Lisa.
- 6. German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468).
- 8. Florentine sculptor and painter and architect. Painted the Sistine Chapel.
- 9. English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616).
- 12. The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries.
- 13. Italian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520). Painted the painting called, The School of Athens.
- 14. A synonym for the answer to question number 3 down.
- 15. Great Italian architect of the High Renaissance in Italy (1444-1514).
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- 1. Son of Lorenzo De'Medici and pope from 1513 to 1521.
- 2. A machine for printing text or pictures from type or plates.
- 3. Capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries.
- 5. A person with many talents or areas of knowledge.
- 7. 60 per cent of Florence’s population died from the plague, and probably the same proportion in Siena mainly because of rats and other rodents.
- 10. Spiritual enlightenment causing something or someone to lead a new life.
- 11. The period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance.